Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry used the letterhead of a reputable firm which employed him, represented on it to the War Department that he had a company and plant equipped to turn out 4.2-in. mortar shells. This company, the Erie Basin Metal Products Inc., did not then actually exist. But soon after Pearl Harbor the War Department gave Dr. Garsson's nonmachined firm a whopping order for shells. Meantime Henry Garsson had found two men-Allen B. Gellman and Joseph Weiss of Chicago-who had factories and machines but no war contracts...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
...July 10, in a speech to the Council of Foreign Ministers, Molotov enunciated a new point of departure in Russian foreign policy: an abandonment of the French in their demand for control of the Ruhr and the Saar Basin, and opposition to the dismemberment of Germany unless "the German people express their wish to transform Germany into a federal state." The day after this speech, every newspaper in the French capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this...
When war came the Garrson boys were ready with a good scheme for quick-&-easy profits. With no assets except a borrowed letterhead they established the Erie Basin Metal Products Co. Then they grabbed a $3,000,000 contract from the Chemical Warfare Service to produce mortar shells, and went to town...
...week's end one witness produced canceled Erie Basin checks for $18,000 made out to the Cumberland Lumber Co. One of them was endorsed by "A. J. May, President." No lumber had ever been delivered, no records for the company were available. But its home office was in Prestonburg, Ky., Andy May's home town...