Word: carrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prudential's President Carrol Mcteer Shanks, 52, this seemed like a fair price to pay for a new office in the Midwest, where Prudential hopes to tap the area's one-third of all U.S. farm incomes, the $30 to $50 million auto industry, the meat-packing industry...
This direct approach has always made sense to Carrol Shanks. To get himself through school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925, was hired by Prudential to help reorganize the bankrupt railroads in which the company had investments. Shanks later took over the job of employee relations, did so well that he was made executive vice president. He was made president of Prudential...
...annual $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science went this year to Zoology Professor Carrol Milton Williams of Harvard. His research* on the hormone system that makes the native silkworm (Cecropia) turn into a moth had nothing to do with silk production; it was aimed at the central secrets of growth and life...
Also announced were the final castings for the production, which is slated for December 15 and 16 in Agassiz Theatre. Virginia Carrol '51 plays the part of Lysistrata, who induces the women of Greece to protest against the Peloponnesian War by refusing to go to bed with their husbands and any other...
Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Holen Gahagen Douglas in California by close to a 2 to 1 majority while Republican incumbent Eugene D. Milliken won over John A. Carrol in Colorado. Both campaigns returned pro-McCarran Act candidates. In Nevada, Patrick A. McCarran defeated Republican George E. Marshall in a close race.Senator ROBERT A. TAFT...