Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the designers of the Colmol was Sunnyhill's 37-year-old President Clifford H. Snyder, who started in business with a $75 second-hand truck. He now runs a company that grosses $25 million a year. Along with Co-Inventors Arnold E. Lamm, Sunnyhill's executive vice president, and V. J. McCarthy, a coal man of Youngstown, Ohio, he built a prototype of the machine around an old army tank, worked out the bugs in a company warehouse, that was guarded day & night...
...behavior of Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford had been puzzling White House newsmen for a week and a half. In view of the political debacle facing the Truman Administration, it was hard to understand how handsome Mr. Clifford could look so happy and knowing. He looked like a man who had something up his sleeve...
...fact, he had. He had been turning over an idea in his mind ever since last summer. At that time Air Secretary Stuart Symington had suggested that the way to handle the Russian crisis was to send Dwight Eisenhower over to talk with Stalin. That suggestion was dropped, but Clifford remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...Clifford saw it, the President would have nothing to lose. If Fred Vinson, in man-to-nTan fashion, could get some reassuringly peaceful word out of Stalin, the whole world would cheer. It might even be the miracle needed to keep Harry Truman in the White House. Jubilantly Mr. Truman approved of the idea...
...witness a national plowing contest. While Bess Truman, who had come up from Independence, fixed a big red carnation in her husband's buttonhole and the farmers grinned appreciatively, Harry Truman arrayed himself on a platform on a little knoll. He was delighted with the speech which Clark Clifford had written for him. Figuratively he bared his fangs. As violently as he could, he mowed 'em down...