Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico in 1938, most major U.S. oil companies have shown little desire to go back in, despite repeated invitations. Last year, Cities Service Co., the only one that had not left Mexico, took on a job of drilling new wells. But otherwise, the best deal that Antonio J. Bermudez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's oil monopoly, could make was with J. Edward Jones, a small U.S. oil promoter, to drill 100 wells (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). He drilled...
Bouquets. At a Greater New York Fund-raising luncheon, New York's C.I.O. Boss Louis Hollander freely expressed his opinion of John D. Rockefeller III. Said Hollander: John D. and his four brothers (TIME, Jan. 31) were perfect models of a rich man's sons. They saw their responsibility as "custodians" of their great wealth rather than owners of it, and were spending it on socially useful projects instead of nightclubs and "riotous living...
...American Woolen Co.'s mill in Riverside, R.I., all the workers knew quiet, unassuming old Albion R. Allen. He had worked up from odd jobs at $6 a week to boss dyer at $60 a week. If he had never made a lot of money, he had always managed to save some of what he made. He bought a home and lived comfortably-by himself, after his wife died. Some of his friends heard that he also dabbled in the stock market, but taciturn old Albion never talked about it. Last July, at 72, he died...
Bendix plays a morose, bumbleheaded factory hand with a careful blend of "bathos, confusion and corny humor. His enemy is his landlady (Beulah Bondi); his daughter is being courted by the boss's son and the landlady's nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes...
Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...