Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Halifax was planning a final trip through the country he knows better than any other foreign diplomat, and more widely than most U.S. citizens. A speaking tour in Nebraska and Kansas would bring the total of states he has visited...
...three tense days, Lewis Clark insisted that his workers would not go back. Here was a U.S. labor leader openly defying Government seizure; nobody quite knew what to do about rambunctious Mr. Clark. Then he relented. He watched the rival A.F. of L. union's President Earl Jimerson give in happily to the back-to-work order. He extracted the promise of help toward wage boosts from Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson and conferred with C.I.O. President Phil Murray (who apparently extracted a few promises...
...flat-as-a-flounder moccasins and sandals affected by adolescent girls are just as bad as the high heels worn by their ex-flapper mothers. Mayo Clinic's Dr. Earl C. Elkins warned the jitterbugs that if they keep on wearing the flat flats, their arches will eventually pancake and they'll have "sled runners for feet...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...
...till last week did the new company get around to incorporating formally. At a meeting in the Slick Oil Co. offices in San Antonio's 21-story ,Milam Building, Earl Slick was elected president, Charlie Urschel Jr., treasurer. Tom will probably be vice president. Total capitalization: $1,000,000, almost all put up by the Slick and Urschel families...