Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debris. Foreign correspondents were taken by the Russians to see with their own eyes how well the drive was going. As usual, New York Times's Cyrus L. Sulzberger painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris...
Even before that, in the merger era, he had shown his financial toughness by sticking with (and successfully running) Republic while Dreamer Cyrus Eaton, who put it together, was washed out by the depression. Later he also joined the syndicate that salvaged the wrecks of another dreamer, Errett Lobban Cord, whose ill-assorted mass of properties included Vultee. Leader of that syndicate was Wall Street's Victor Emanuel, whose dreams have shown a much solider content than Eaton's or Cord's. Emanuel and Girdler together swung the Vultee-Consolidated deal...
Moscow was again the capital of Russia this week. "Today," wrote New York Timesman. Cyrus Sulzberger in his first Moscow dispatch in two months, "the sun rose propitiously, shining on the placid white streets while the inordinately gay Muscovites, relieved of strain, bustled about doing their Sunday shopping, jesting at the latest posters ridiculing the retreating Germans...
Management representatives chosen for the council: W.P. Witherow, president of Blaw-Knox and new president of the National Association of Manufacturers; Rubber Executive Cyrus Ching and Shipping Tycoon Roger Lapham (both of the National Defense Mediation Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr. (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.); Donald Comer (Avondale Mills); Robert M. Gaylord (Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.); Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp.); Charles Hook (American Rolling Mill Co.); Thomas R. Jones (American Type Founders, Inc.); Reuben Robertson (Champion Fiber...
...Cyrus McCormick had in effect told the dealers their role in the emergency was to make all the money they could without working too hard. His general suggestions: 1) sell new cars only at full list price, 2) stop overtrading, 3) build up the service end of their business...