Word: cos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany, which give Young his control. In short, Kirby has supplied the cash, Young the plan to use it. Partner Kolbe, now president of Chicago's United Electric Coal Cos., has long since sold...
...Lewis Burrie Swift, president of Rochester's Taylor Instrument Cos., which turned out 40,000 instruments for Oak Ridge, more than had been needed in the synthetic rubber and high octane programs combined...
...reprint rights (it now has contracts with "some 40" periodicals), Reader's Digest pays as little as $1,200 a year (to the New Republic), as much as $50,000 (to Crowell-Collier and Curtis Publishing Cos.). Authors who get reprinted are paid $150 per Digest page...
Lifted Eyebrows. "Jumbo" Wilson's appointment to the job late in December had caused some eyebrow-lifting in British military circles. His most recent campaign as Middle East commander, the attack on the Aegean Islands of Cos, Samos and Leros had been a fiasco. Troops had been pushed within easy reach of German land-based air power; communications were so badly organized that landing parties had trouble contacting headquarters at Cairo 500 miles away; equipment was rusty and inadequate. Some wit rose to the occasion by dubbing Jumbo "The Wizard of Cos." Another commented that the Russians shoot generals...
...Allies. Instead they surrendered quickly to the Germans there. Said Sir Henry: "We were unlucky in not getting Rhodes on the day of the armistice [with Italy]. So we did the next best thing-hit at the enemy's line of communications and created a diversion by occupying Cos, Leros and Samos." Sir Henry could not offer another but likely explanation: that, once again, "higher authority" had forced commanders in the field to undertake a hopeless venture...