Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight David Elsenhower will direct the main assault from Britain. On the supple, affable shoulders of the 53-year-old American will fall the toughest job of military coordination since Marshal Ferdinand Foch took supreme command over 1918's Western Front...
...biggest mistake: opposition to the Controlled Materials Plan drawn up by WPB's other vice chairman, Ferdinand Eberstadt, as the only sure way to keep production flowing on a smooth, sound basis. This brought on the newspaper-famed Wilson-Eberstadt fight (TIME, March 1). Two more dissimilar men than Charlie Wilson and Ferd Eberstadt could hardly have been brought face to face: Wilson, the ambitious doer, the man who came up from scratch; Eberstadt, the polished investment banker, Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained, the man who did with pencil & paper what Charlie Wilson was used to doing with...
...Among them: Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and President of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Dr. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, Moderator of the Congregational Christian Churches; Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Secretary of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops; Roman Catholic Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Robet E. Lucey of San Antonio; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, President of the Synagogue Council of America...
Besides miniature bananas, palm trees and pedigreed dogs, Ben has also trimmed hats with models of penguins, reindeer, Ferdinand the Bull, Red Cross nurses, Chinese coolies with water jugs, and nude "Folies-Bergère" dancers. He is already planning for the 1944 elections: hats trimmed with elephants and donkeys. But his biggest innovation for the out-of-this-world hat business is his refusal to sell any hat exclusively...
...than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists do not expect it to stop there; some even envision the production of sweet-tempered bulls like the fictional Ferdinand...