Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce. Cars lay idle along the coal and ore railroads-the Pennsy, the Bessemer & Lake Erie, the C. & O. Work would soon slacken in limestone quarries, zinc smelters, silica diggings. Barge traffic thinned as the tires were banked...
The 60-odd members of the delegation steamed in, in their own special train, to negotiate a coordinated administration of northern and southern Korea, as directed by the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Moscow Conference. The U.S. commander in Korea, grim-jawed Lieut. General John R. Hodge, was doubtless impressed...
Most of the Russians stayed on the train, kept the curtains drawn. But Colonel General Shtykov, head of the delegation, went with his immediate aides to the Chosen Hotel. There a teetotaling young U.S. Signal Corps lieutenant, detailed as manager of the hotel, was driven to drink for the first...
Sorensen had wrangled with Ward Murphey Canaday, board chairman of Willys and owner of 52% of its stock, over policy and production. On top of this; their personalities had clashed. That was natural. Canaday is primarily a salesman. He started his business life selling stoves, joined Willys in 1916 as...
In Jim Mooney, Willys now has one of the auto industry's top salesmen. He took G.M.'s overseas sales from 21,000 cars in 1922 to 282,000 in 1928. When war virtually wiped out his job, he did a notable job for the Navy building and...