Word: finney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. John Miller Turpin Finney, 78, famed surgeon, Chief Consultant in Surgery with the A.E.F. in World War I; in Baltimore. He was a teacher and surgeon at Johns Hopkins for more than 30 years...
...James Finney Lincoln is the biggest maker of electrodes and welding equipment in the U.S., and he likes to intone that "the labor cost of any product can be reduced to zero" through inciting workers to make continuous improvements in production method and design...
...welding electrodes, weighing 700 Ib. The order itself took a single sheet of paper. But with it came si Ib. of priority extensions, taking 597 sheets of paper (see cut). Each priority (199 in all) required typed fill-ins, two signatures (one notarized with seal). President James Finney Lincoln last week calculated that it cost him much less in money and man-hours to make the electrodes (which sold for $40.90) than to fill out the forms. When he thought of the man-hours spent by his customer in getting the priorities, he stopped trying to calculate...
...known name on the programs was Oklahoma-born Roy Harris (TIME, April 8), who provided a fairly doughy set of preludes and fugues for string quartet. Quincy Porter's eight-minute quintet for flute and strings, based on A-Tisket, A-Tasket, was the brightest bit. Ross Lee Finney gave out Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang the vocal himself. And so on. None of the music would have set Saratoga Springs on fire, but it probably would have pleased Katrina...
Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove...