Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago, George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School joined and advised a group of industrialists, bankers, statesmen who were forming a firm to invest free capital in new-process laboratory science...
Packard had developed the shift three years ago but kept it out of its cars as long as the seller's market lasted. Now, with all other automakers bringing out similar shifts-or developing them-Packard hustled...
...speedboat racer himself, Vincent once took such a battering from Gar Wood's backwash that he emerged from the cockpit of his boat black & blue, and groaned: "I'm through with this. I'll fly airplanes." Fly them he did until four years ago when he turned 65 and felt he "should depend . . . on the skill of someone else much younger." Packard is still depending on Vincent's skill. It set a postwar Packard record by selling 11,594 cars in March...
...could not agree on what to do about it. Last week Mooney moved out as president, but stayed on as chairman. Canaday began shopping for another president. A likely candidate: ex-President Charles E. Sorensen, whom Canaday had kicked upstairs to vice chairman when Mooney came in three years ago. Thanks to an airtight contract from Canaday, Sorensen draws $1,000 a week for the next five years whether he does anything...
Witchcraft et Cetera. Except for Professor George Woodberry, who nearly 50 years ago wrote the life of Hawthorne for the original "American Men of Letters" series, Hawthorne's biographers did not do much research on the facts of his life. Instead, they have speculated and commented, with varying degrees of critical acumen and psychological acuteness, on his published works. One result is that in the past 50 years a series of well-nigh indistinguishable opuses have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father...