Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized. In these miles and miles of ruins there is nothing but dullness and apathy, a state that seems like a sleepwalking trance. The backdrop is complete destruction; the script is desertion in the face of danger. And all the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-'Frankfurt Stands Firm'-'Better Death Than Slavery'-are nothing but a mocking epitaph." (See FOREIGN NEWS...
After that he would deposit checks up to $8,000, forged on the first firm. By the time the bank sent out its statements and the forgeries were discovered, Alexander Thiel would have made his killing and vanished. In twelve years he took more than $200,000 from the biggest Manhattan banks. Exasperated G-men, unable to discover his identity, listed him on their files...
...moment there is nothing here but dullness and apathy. All the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-"Frankfurt stands firm," "Better Death than Slavery"-are nothing but a mocking epitaph...
Gerard Swope, former president of the General Electric Company, writing on "Some Aspects of Corporate Management" in the spring number of the Harvard Business Review, has taken a firm stand against making the figures of executives' salaries public. In his article, the keynote of which is "the responsibility of business and society to each other," Swope asks "What conclusions about business organization can we draw from the experience of the last quarter century?" His answer covers matters related to stockholders, directors, and officers alike...
...despair of other Manhattan fancy-dressers, got caught with his spats down in Colorado. Returning from a dusty tour of the Pike's Peak country, he started confidently toward a table in Colorado Springs' swank Broadmoor Hotel, was briskly stopped by the headwaiter. The management's firm attitude: Columnist Beebe, in riding clothes, was not suitably dressed for hotel dining...