Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was four disillusioning years ago. Now, in Britain's venerable Nature magazine, Professor Huxley has recorded his changed opinion. Recent events demonstrate, he says, "that science is no longer regarded in the U.S.S.R. as an international activity of free workers whose prime interest is to discover new truths and new facts, but as an activity subordinated to a particular ideology and designed only to secure practical results in the interests of a particular national and political system . . . The new social-political orthodoxy is . . . inimical to the free spirit of science. There is now a scientific party line...
...divorce wave, borrowed graduation dresses for high-school girls who could not afford them, helped raise $55,000 for a clubhouse for the Indoor Sports, an organization of shut-ins. He became San Diego's best-known newspaperman, and one of its best-loved citizens. Four years ago, when the rival Journal hired him away from the Union, hundreds of readers came with him to follow his new column, "People We Know...
...windfalls of good fortune. Last week, as feckless "shorts" ran to cover their bets in the grain markets, the price of wheat futures rose to the highest they had been in five months. At their peak of $2.06, December futures were 10? a bushel higher than a month ago. Millers and bakers, who had been taking their own good time about buying supplies, expecting to get bargain prices, decided to do their buying now-before prices got any higher...
...running the company in fact as well as name. Soon Ward had enough directors to outvote Fairchild. Fairchild-who invented the Fairchild camera used by the U.S. Army for aerial mapping-prided himself on being an idea man. Ward threw most of his ideas in the wastebasket. Three years ago, fed up, Fairchild resigned as chairman...
Five months ago he got a chance to strike back at Ward, who had piloted the company through the lushest days of its World War II boom. Ward had decided to retire (the board had voted him a $25,000-a-year pension for life). Sherman Fairchild (who still owned 95,000 shares) formed a committee to defeat the pension. Ward was alarmed and withdrew his plan. Fairchild went ahead with his committee. Its new purpose: to oust Ward...