Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glamorous. White-haired, farsighted Thomas Ray, IBBMISBWHA's business agent in Portland, was a boilermaker during World War I's shipbuilding boom, saw union funds wasted then, decided to avoid similar squandering this time by building a marble-fronted palace for his union on Portland's Third Avenue. To querulous persons who wonder how this prevents waste, Tommy Ray explains: "This is no extravagance. When the boom is over, the money we'll make off our bowling alleys alone will keep the building going...
...walk around that idea" and "facts-not opinions") is apt to mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making 75-mm. shell casings for World War I. He helped organize the milling...
...succeed in being commissioned as the result of that training. Those who fail (and there seems slight chance to failure for a man who can do the Harvard preparatory work) are immediately sent on active duty, and after six months' sea duty may apply for Ensign training. Failures may avoid this sea duty, however, by enlisting in the Naval Air Force for active duty...
...motorists will have to have OPA agents inspect their tires every 60 days, to avoid wear beyond the minimum standards for recapping...
...Salvation Army. (His parishioners disapproved. One objected that pocket picking had gone on at one of the street meetings; Dr. Carlile rejoiced that thieves were attending.) To the day of his death he eschewed "luxuries such as slippers and cushions," never sat on a couch if he could avoid it, always worked on a high, uncomfortable stool, as he had a great dread of feeling comfortable...