Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...
Most effective critic of the peace ship's travels was a young Philadelphia Public Ledger reporter on board who brilliantly lampooned the pacifists' daily quarreling. He was William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to France...
Argentina showed the biggest immediate gains. Since War became imminent the country's grain board has sold Europe over 1,000,000 tons of wheat; last week Britain and France ordered 16,635 tons of chilled and frozen meats, to be delivered, besides standing orders, by October...
...Chairman Jerome Frank's suggestion for a brokerage bank for customers' cash and free securities, a special Stock Exchange Board turned thumbs down. Its alternative: a 14-point program for completion of the Exchange's extensive self-policing policy...
...Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks, no one by the name of Manville now has a titular post in the firm...