Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He learned about finance as assistant to Secretaries of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills and William H. Woodin. In 1933 he came to New York to help run an investment trust (Mayflower Associates Inc.), in 1937 became a director of Connecticut's famed old Electric Boat...
From its founding in 1897, Electric Boat had been a feast-or-famine company. In World War I, it saw fantastic expansion, built 124 subs for the Allies, but for the next 13 years got not one Government order. In World War II, it whipped out 82 submarines, and ended the war with $5,600,000 cash in reserves. Hopkins sought bargains to even out the submarine business, grabbed up Canadair in 1947 from the Canadian government for $8,000,000, half its cost. In 1949 he got the Canadian license for North American's F-86s, gave Canadair...
...bone. She was born 45 years ago in Waterbury, Conn the fourth of seven children ("I'm the ham in the middle") of Clara and James Edward Russell, a prosperous lawyer. She was named, not for Shakespeare's heroine, but for the S.S. Rosalind, a boat that once carried Father & Mother Russell on a vacation voyage to Nova Scotia...
...Prentice, but first she had to find some way of getting a release from Universal. Rosalind made an appointment with Carl Laemmle Jr., then Universal's general manager. Because she had been told that he liked beautiful women, she put on an old dress ("It had a wide boat-neck that showed all my collarbones"), greased her hair with Vaseline, wore an unbecoming hat and dirty white shoes, twisted her stockings to make the seams crooked. She shuffled into Laemmle's office, slouched awkwardly on a couch and whined: "I wanta get outa here...
Raymond spent the summer of his twelfth year in a boat on the Marne, reading his father's library of modern French authors, and decided to become a writer. At 14, he was producing lyric poetry of mature feeling and craft. At 15, he hit out on his own in the literary life of Paris. At 17, he brought out his first volume of poetry and wrote his first novel. Le Diable an Corps (recently made into a French film and shown in the U.S. as Devil in the Flesh), the story of an adolescent love affair...