Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watched. His newspaper, the West African Pilot, has grown into a chain of five, spanning southern Nigeria with a total circulation of over 25,000. Ex-Strikebreaker Zik has been accused of inciting coalfield workers to strike and has won and lost a string of libel suits. By flamboyant and often crude tactics, Zik has built an enormous (7,000,000, says Zik) following among Nigerians, most of whom are illiterate. To keep tabs on him the British have CID detectives watching him constantly. He shrugs them off, says, "A man with a free conscience has nothing to worry about...
...Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney. They talk over the news and the Colonel's slants on the news. The rest of the afternoon the Colonel reads his mail, takes tea & toast, researches his weekly radiorations on forgotten U.S. heroes, sends off memos (signed "R.R. McC.") down his chain of command, and summons department heads to the sanctum. They have learned that it is well to lay a problem crisply on the line, get his decision, which is almost invariably prompt, and get out fast...
Market In Grey. Solely responsible for this state of affairs was the "grey market daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price...
...Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
Wilbur A. Cowett '45 won the James Gerdon Bennett prize for his essay on "Civil Liability of the Bueaurocracy for Unilateral Administrative Acts." The income from the Philo Sherman Bennett fund was awarded to Sumner L. Feidberg '45 for his paper on "Chain Stores...