Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...utilities lag. Example: Commonwealth & Southern turned in $20,488.698-up nearly $5 million...
...beginning of the afternoon session, Derevyanko, backed by MacMahon Ball: the British Commonwealth representative, suggested that the remainder of the report be submitted in writing. Whitney refused: ". . . the gentleman's [Derevyanko's] allegation . . . was a challenge to the Supreme Commander's conduct of the occupation. I intend to give the full details of this report and nothing short of it." He was allowed to finish while Ball closed his eyes as if in sleep...
...quarter dollars as soon as the Parliaments of both countries ratified the deal. Terms: repayment in 50 years, at 2% interest, beginning in 1951. In addition, Canada canceled a whopping British debt: $425,000,000 incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Moreover, Canada agreed to settle, for $150,000,000, all big & little "known & unknown" claims that resulted from an intermeshed war effort...
...work for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Soon he was borrowed by the Federal Communications Commission to help investigate the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. His reputation as a utilities expert grew. At 30, as the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power operations, he negotiated the famed Commonwealth & Southern purchases with Wendell Willkie...
Young Henry Ford II, who proved himself a labor statesman in settling his own labor troubles, last week suggested a statesmanlike solution for the nation's. Before San Francisco's famed Commonwealth Club, where the late President Roosevelt first raised the oriflamme of the New Deal, the Ford Co.'s 28-year-old president went back to old principles. Said...