Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel business-long the red-eyed child of misfortune-is as happy as a room clerk with a waiting list. From Horwath and Horwath, famed bookkeepers of the bed-&-bottle business, comes statistical confirmation: Not alone in fabulous Washington, but in Chicago, Philadelphia and many another city, August hotel business was up 20% over last year. Room sales were up 16%, total restaurant sales zoomed 24%. Room occupancy, significant index of hotel prosperity, averaged 75%-highest since October...
...train moved up into Minnesota's lake country, through the little cattle towns of North Dakota, through Montana and high up into the Rockies. When the train stopped at Billings, a railway clerk saw a Scottie out for an airing on the platform, read its identification tag. It was the President's Fala. Soon all Montana buzzed with a rumor that Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to a mid-Pacific conference with Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Wendell Willkie...
...officers, for one year; president, Henry S. Thompson; vice president, Austin W. Scott; clerk (secretary) Walter Humphreys; treasurer, Horace S. Ford...
...grew up in Manhattan's shabby lower West Side, was left fatherless at three, had to go to work at twelve. He started as office boy in a General Electric subsidiary at $3 a week, never left the company, fought his way through the ranks as factory hand, clerk, accountant (a skill he picked up at night school). At 20 he was a factory manager, at 21 assistant superintendent. Then, a self-made man in the midst of G.E.'s engineering aristocracy, he rose to vice president in charge of the company's big appliance business executive...
...Sergeant Kenneth J. White, Sergeant Major of the Harvard ROTC from August, 1938 to September 17, 1942, was promoted on the latter date to a second lieutenancy. He is now at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in service with an MP battalion. Sergeant J. W. Parry has replaced him as chief clerk of military affairs here...