Word: confidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Attlee, confident of labor unity on this issue, slumped like a doodling dormouse in his seat. He put in a junior minister to wind up the debate for the government. The Tory motion was defeated, 308 to 298.
Muddle in Meat. Attlee was not so confident of his majority the following night when the Tories drove home their attack on the meat shortage. The Laborites squirmed, because their unity on this point was false and their consciences were burning. The day before, in a caucus of the Parliamentary...
Some observers had the same shivery feeling that accompanied the Chinese breakthrough of last November and the wholesale U.N. retreat that followed. But the situation this time was quite different. Largely as a result of General Ridgway's morale-boosting, the Eighth Army was no longer suffering from "bugout...
Johnston trimmed the debt to $238 million, spent $134 million on equipment and improvements in five years. By 1949 Johnston had the Illinois Central in such healthy shape that he resumed payments on the preferred stock. Last year, when the road earned a net of $29,123,632, the fattest...
Monsanto thought that if anyone could do the job, it could be done by Executive Vice President Charles Allen Thomas, 51. A brilliant scientist (D.Sc., M.I.T. '33), Thomas had helped develop no-knock ethyl gasoline, was awarded the civilian Medal for Merit for his work as project director of...