Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week a million dollars' worth of steel-industry talent for-gathered, by some mischance, in the wrong room. When the mistake was discovered, the high-priced executives, economists, public-relations counselors, lawyers, et al. put on their Homburgs, gathered up their brief cases, and marched, 100 strong, to the Smithsonian Institution. Upstairs past the stuffed moose, not far from Lindbergh's rickety-looking little Spirit of St. Louis, and in an auditorium surrounded by herds of dinosaurs and mastodons, they sat down to hear what they had come for: the most determined assault on the Little...
...Necessary? "I hold no brief," said De Golyer frankly, "for the Government's Arabian pipeline [but] until some satisfactory substitute is found ... I am for the line. The oilfields of the Middle East are practically certain to be of paramount importance as a source of the world's oil supplies for a generation to come. . . . The fact that the Iraq Petroleum Co.* is even now asking for steel with which to build a line of substantially the same size ... is sufficient answer as to whether additional petroleum is needed in the Eastern Mediterranean...
Died. Jules Semon Bache, 82, art-collecting, art-bestowing Manhattan banker and broker; after a brief illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. The monocled, well-preserved bon vivant took over his uncle's Wall Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...ninth day after sentence, a guard unlocked Pierre Pucheu's cell, a chaplain said a brief mass. At the place of execution Pierre Pucheu spurned a blindfold, stared firmly at the firing squad, himself gave the command, "Ready! . . . Aim! . . . Fire!", then slumped in death...
...real score on Cassino was brief. Before bombardment six weeks of heavy fighting had taken one-quarter of the town; after bombardment the Allies took three-quarters of it in 24 hours. Early this week the Germans pushed up reinforcements, still held out in the western end. But the Allies' hard-won bridgehead over the Rapido River was growing. Next objective might be to capture Monastery Hill, site of the bombed-out Benedictine abbey, towering beyond the town...