Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union heads chose industrial insurance rather than ordinary life, fire, etc., because they thought industrial agents would have more grievances, would be more amenable to union advances. The agents shortly verified this premise. In affidavits submitted to NLRB and New York State Labor Relations Board, in testimony before a New York legislative committee, they declared themselves to be pitifully chivvied, hounded into hounding impoverished clients. A Metropolitan agent in New York City, Benjamin Klein, testified that his district manager punished him for lagging sales by making him don a dunce cap inscribed, "I am lousy, I am a louse," required...
...five-meter radio sending set, cased against fire in two inches of asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose to set his radio in the tail because he remembered the TWA crash, knew that a plane's tail, having little mass, is seldom demolished in crashes...
...ruck of possible candidates discussed by the London press, BBC's board of governors last week chose another Scot, Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, to succeed Scot Reith. Dark-horse candidate for the $37,500 job, Professor Ogilvie is a celebrated economist. The board wanted a thoroughgoing educator, and the new 45-year-old D. G. fills the bill perfectly. He taught at Oxford and Edinburgh before becoming president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast...
...death sentence" (section 11B) of the Act provides that once the utility holding companies have registered, SEC has the power to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Most commentators have expected that whatever company Bill Douglas chose to chop up first would ap peal the "death sentence" to the Supreme Court. Here, Bill Douglas was smart - he picked $303,813,000 Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair...
...cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady who may be the loser," said Philip, "I am 44 years of age and would be interested in a decent person. ..." This week Judson chose May, Nellie went home, Philip got neither. Reason: Philip was already married...