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Beating the big-timers comes easily to brisk Jack Moone. In 1945, he quit his job as frozen-foods sales manager of General Foods' Birds Eye Snider Division. With two other General Foods executives, Nathaniel B. Barclay and Martin Matthews, who quit at the same time, he Bounded Snow Crop. With only $35,000 in capital, the three lined up 13 packers of frozen foods and vegetables, were the first to sell frozen orange concentrate on a national scale. Their orange juice supplier: Vacuum Foods Corp., which later produced juice under its own Minute Maid label. Snow Crop...
...Brisk Show. Later that day 66-year-old Harry Truman seemed to walk with a weary man's heavy tread. He wasn't usually one to worry about decisions once made, he confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Carl Levin, but on the Korean affair he couldn't help worrying about the inevitable consequences. That worry creased his face even while he put himself through a brisk show of business-as-usual, talking California politics with Jimmy Roosevelt, laying a cornerstone in the blazing Washington heat, addressing the Boy Scouts at Valley Forge...
...Troops March. Now the argument was ancient history. Politics, strategy and the prestige of the democratic world were so tightly intertwined in Korea that no one could separate them, and nobody tried. After a brisk, businesslike session, the members locked up their papers, snapped their briefcases and carried their report off to Harry Truman...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the steady, commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...