Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Johnston says insurance men estimate Son James's income from his Boston insurance firm (Roosevelt & Sargent Inc.) between $250,000 and $2,000,000 per year, says he built it to that by "twisting" accounts away from other agents by political leverage. Items...
...Baltimore firm of W. T. Shackelford & Co. lost National Distillers-policies between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. Through Joseph P. Kennedy came policies insuring Scotch whiskeys in overseas transit. "Jimmy became, by a wide margin, the biggest whiskey-insurance man in America...
...large majority of the A. M. A.'s delegates last week held firm to this tenet: that the health of all the people of this country will be protected best if: 1) each locality is permitted to adapt one of several endorsed social-economic-medical procedures to its own local needs; 2) doctors are put in charge of all governmental and corporate medical systems. Greatest desideratum to them is a medical Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet. Great fear is a nonmedical Secretary of Welfare...
...firm conviction that any fairly good heavyweight boxer could put the great Gargantua [460-lb. Congo-born gorilla now on tour with the Ringling circus] to sleep or to rout within two minutes...
This day all three tires of the new-fangled tricycle, or nosewheel, landing gear were firm.† DC-4 glistened in the sun, its four 1.400 horsepower motors thumping idly. In climbed Pilot Carl Cover. The great ship surged forward, took off in less than twelve seconds. On the ground, Douglas craftsmen threw their hats in the air, slapped each other on the back. In the air DC-4 stayed for an hour and a half, then landed gently where it had started...