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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though there were scattered industrial layoffs and cutbacks-and scattered rehirings as well-there was no letup in many industries. The automakers had their biggest week (130,197 units) since 1941. Heavy construction awards of $178 million for the week were nearly double those of a year ago. Looking at all this hustle-bustle-and totting up the $47.5 billion in savings bonds U.S. consumers hold-Treasury Secretary John Snyder said cheerfully: "If we are going to have a depression, it's going to be the richest depression we ever...
Like every big business and many small ones, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. was worried about the "problem drinker." Absenteeism and inefficiency had made it the company's problem as well as the drinker's.† Five years ago, Du Pont put a man known only as "Dave" on the payroll. He was a former tennis pro who had quit drinking, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous. In Detroit last week, Dr. G. H. Gehrmann, Du Pont medical director, told a meeting of industrial physicians how Alcoholics Anonymous-and men like Dave-could help companies cure their dipsomaniacs...
...president went tall, affable Leland Ira Doan, 54, who married Dow's sister and went to work for the company 31 years ago. He had risen rapidly, thanks to his selling talents and techniques (e.g., he catalogued prospective customers down to their hobbies before tackling them). As Dow's No. 1 sales executive for the last 19 years, Doan held the No. 2 job in the company, finding markets for the new products (magnesium, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.) which Dow turned...
Empson's poems came out of hard thinking about poetry. Twenty years ago as a student at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Empson turned on his studies a now legendary power of concentration. In a university famous for mathematics he got a "first" in the subject, then a "starred first" in English...
David B. Hill '51, Kirkland House student charged with disturbing the peace a week ago Saturday at the University Theater, will be represented in Superior Court sometime this week by his father, a local attorney...