Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl Derman is meditating deeply these days on the merits of having one's profile engraved in famous places. He tried to pull a Barrymore on the steps of Harvard Union by imprinting his handsome face in that hallowed cement. The trouble was, the cement had long since dried and Mr. Berman has been making periodical retreats to Sick Bay ever since. (P. S.: He really stumbled...
Brigadier General John Franklin, Chief of the Water Division, Office of Chief of Transportation, was president of the U.S. Lines. Major General William H. Harrison, Deputy Chief Signal Officer, was engineering vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Brigadier General Carl R. Gray Jr., Director General of the North African military railroads, was executive vice president of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway...
Until last week, Author Carl Crow's reputation rested on his richly flavored understanding of the Chinese, his long-term hatred of the Japs. His 400 Million Customers (1937), the fruit of his 26 years of successful journalism and advertising in the Orient, became a best-seller in nine languages. But this week Carl Crow's twelfth book-The Great American Customer (Harper; $3)-proved that its author was also an adept in U.S. business history...
Moral for Americans. Careful Carl Crow draws only one moral from his collection of early Americana: that the U.S. grew great precisely because it "had no carriage trade," and had to cater to the needs of its ubiquitous poor. But implicit in almost all his tales of Yankee ingenuity and invention-for-the-masses is another moral even more pertinent to U.S. industry. The U.S. got its head start in mass production precisely because the old countries thought they could maintain their monopoly of all the known skills of the 18th and 19th Centuries. In so doing they forced their...
United Pressman Webb Miller, the New York Herald Tribune's Ralph Barnes and Ben Robertson, Associated Pressmen Edward Crockett and Ben Miller, the New York Times's Byron Darnton, International News Service's Jack Singer, Acme Newspictures' Carl Thusgaard, Mutual Broadcasting System's Frank Cuhel, TIME'S Melville Jacoby...