Word: bains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British contingent of the Anglo-American Council is headed by big, bluff Sir Frederick Bain, deputy chairman of Imperial Chemicals and head of the Federation of British Industries; the U.S. contingent by Board Chairman Philip Reed of General Electric. The council met for the first time late in October, then set off on a whirlwind tour of factories-electrical and mechanical engineering, clothing, tire and radio plants near London, machine tool and auto plants in Birmingham, textile factories in Bradford, pottery works in Stoke, the busy Clydeside shipyards in Glasgow...
Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...
...winners are: Lewis McA. Branscomb 2G, Wayland C. Griffith '45 2G, Peter MacNair 2G, Peter H. Nash 1G, Henry H. McR. Bain, Jr. 1G, Charles Breunig...
...mixed vegetables, coffee, before the confusion* began to clear a little. A Congressman noticed a tiny typewritten card almost hidden by the roses. He nudged the guest on his left. The nudging passed around the table like a ripple. The luncheon was in honor of the stranger, Sir Frederick Bain, no G-man, but president of the Federation of British Industries, which represents about 80% of British manufacturing...
...works at least 14 hours a day. About 10, he gets up, bathes, shaves, douses himself with Bain de Champagne perfume, wraps himself in a six-foot-square Turkish towel and drips across the costly Aubusson tapestry rug on his bedroom floor. He sits down at his three bedroom phones (one gilded). There he starts the day's business. He rarely reaches the office before 2 p.m., frequently drifts home from Toots Shor's or the Stork Club after...