Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts, as New York Timesman Edwin L. Dale Jr., 33, reported this week: 1) in 1952-55, retail prices of manufactured goods, as well as food prices, declined a bit on the average; 2) the main inflationary factor is not a wage-price spiral so much as the fact that service businesses (mostly small), along with landlords, doctors and dentists, keep pushing up prices of "non-goods"-services, utilities, rents, transportation fares...
...Godkin Lectures, established in 1903, honor the memory of Edwin L. Godkin, British-American journalist of the 19th century, who founded "The Nation" and edited the New York Evening Post. Recent Godkin Lecturers have been Hugh Gaitskill, John Lord O'Brian, Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy and U.S. Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont...
...Edwin H. Walker, 47, big (6 ft. 4 in.), hearty president and general manager of McKinnon Industries Ltd., General Motors' parts-manufacturing subsidiary at Saint Catharines. Ont., was made president of General Motors of Canada, Ltd., succeeding William A. Wecker, retiring at 64. Canadian-born. Walker went to work at McKinnon in 1929, climbed steadily through the ranks (inspector, foreman, superintendent, assistant to general manager) to the top of McKinnon in 1953. He arrived just in time to oversee construction of McKinnon's automated V-8 auto-engine plant. To replace Walker at McKinnon, G.M. picked another...
...Died. Edwin C. (for Conger) Hill, 72, longtime (1932-56) radio commentator [The Human Side of the News), onetime topflight reporter (1904-23) and feature writer (1927-32) for the old New York Sun, whose sonorous tones and rich sealed-in sen'timentalism brought him millions of listeners at his peak; of lung cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hill at his chestnut-stuffed best: "Indiana! How often in this holiday season the thoughts of an exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast...
...Sp/3) EDWIN C. WELDON, U.S.A. Frankfurt, Germany...