Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working in a 10-by-12 ft. office, Lights' President Thayer Thorndike faces a big Navy E flag which will be formally presented to the company on Nov. 18. One reason for the award: Lights, Inc. delivers on time. Besides lighting equipment (75% of its total) the company makes "stuffing tubes" (which hold cables on ships), bomb release pulleys, etc., and is planning to subcontract the manufacture of Butex, a synthetic rubber compound...
...Burly, righthanded, 28-year-old Morton Cooper, St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher: the annual Baseball Writers' award for the Most Valuable Player in the National League. In pitching the Cardinals into the World Series, Cooper won 22 games (as many as anyone in either league), ten of them shutouts...
Patrick Hamilton's play will neither be included in anthologies of English drama nor win a Critics' Award. It doesn't pretend to be a major work of art. But, for chilliness and clever acting, it's the best evening you'll spend for a long time...
...with John Payne. Now Payne plays an honest-to-gosh heel; he's the "love 'em and leave 'em" Marine again. In any other context he'd be soundly hissed and hooted at; in "Iceland" he looks by contrast like the prime contender for the Florence Nightingale humanity award...
...There is no standardized rate of profit allowed," he said, noting that the decision in each case depends on such factors as the risks assumed by the concern. "It obviously is not fair to award the same profits to a company that is largely financed by the government as are given to one that has put up all the money itself," he said...