Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth member of the team was Chairman David Lilienthal. He was a man who had roused bitter controversy. He was a vigorous personality and people felt strongly about...
Public-Power Man. David Eli Lilienthal was born in the little town of Morton, Ill., the son of Jewish immigrants from a village near the old Austro-Hungarian city of Pressburg. He spent his boyhood in Valparaiso, Ind., where his father was a small merchant, went on to De Pauw University, where he was twice president of the student body and an editor of the school paper. He turned into a promising light heavyweight boxer, and met a girl named Helen Marian Lamb...
...Hopeful & Affirmative." He has time for only one thing: to hack at the wilderness, to forge the weapon. David Lilienthal is sure that the U.S. can produce the weapon. But he is also "hopeful and affirmative" that reason will prevail, despite "iron heads and iron curtains," and that the weapon will not be needed. If he is wrong, the U.S. can look forward to an atomic arms race that will plunge the U.S. into an even deeper jungle. If he is right, the U.S. will traverse at least the wilderness' first range...
...every evening David Lilienthal leaves his office, checks out at the basement desk and steps into his black sedan, a manila envelope of homework under his arm. Around the Public Health Service building the floodlights flick on. Along the terraces, the armed sentries take up their patrol...
...little Coronet had grown, bragged smart Publisher David Smart last year, was simply terrific. From, a prewar circulation of 120,000, his precocious, pocket-sized monthly† had, he said, soared to 4,000,000 a month. That put Coronet among the four biggest magazines...