Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after his father died, Len went to Washington, drawn there by Franklyn Hall's vivid stories of life in the capital. The lanky boy's life was far from vivid. He got a $50-a-month job with the Potomac Electric Power Co., thus managed to support himself while attending night classes at the Georgetown University Law School. It was not easy. Hall often wore old clothes ("I invented the idea of wearing pants and coat that didn't match"), worked out a complicated route to school so he would not have to spend more than...
...made agreements with Syria to ship industrial goods in exchange for Syria's surplus cotton. The Czechs have offered to build two cement plants, the East Germans a textile factory. Last week Syria voted $23 million to build an oil refinery at Horns. Next day the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey offered to build the refinery at its own expense. So low, however, was Russia's bid (reportedly $10 million) that the Syrians are considering approving both projects...
Passing through Los Angeles on his way to Latin America, doughty General Robert E. Wood, 76, "retired" board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and a right-wing Republican, predicted a business slump if Ike does not stay in the White House. Then he gave a shoving backslap to a Chicago friend: "The Democratic Party today is controlled by its radical wing in the big cities. I know Mr. Stevenson very well. He is a neighbor of mine in Lake Forest. We're all very fond of him. But we do not vote...
...Soviets honestly rewrite the history of denounced "Traitor" Leon Trotsky and of his "deviationist" son Leon Jr., who died mysteriously after an operation in Paris in 1938? It seemed, however, that Mme. Trotsky felt she was challenging Moscow chiefly for the sake of the record. Said she of Khrushchev & Co.: "What can you expect from people who refused to protest either Stalin's theories or his horrible acts so long as he was supreme...
...Harvard-Delhi Student Project last night named its officers for the coming year. William D. Faust '57 and John Mendelsohn '58 were elected co-chairmen, with Peter N. Stearns '57 and David G. Taylor '57 as secretaries, and Richard Rohrberg '58 as treasurer...