Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's piles of steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown buildings, watching the storm crash through the stone canyons. Up & down Long Island and through Westchester County huge old trees were uprooted bodily, usually falling south...
...Franklin Roosevelt, in his 1943 mine-strike speech, gave "an outrageous exhibition of personal malice and dangerous bad temper." But Tom Dewey, said the resolution, is a "firm believer in equal justice, fearless, courageous and capable...
Santa Claus consisted of a group of eight major oil companies,* who offered to turn over to the Society, lock, stock & barrel, the rich Universal Oil Products Corp. Universal is a research firm which holds patents on oil processes that yield an annual income of $1,000,000. Universal's owners paid $22,000,000 for the company in 1931, have since used it to pool research and patents. Reason for giving it away (according to well-informed oil men) : the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Universal as a possible trust, and to avoid a protracted struggle...
...Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, then commander of the Pacific Fleet, lives in a suburb of New York, has several times demanded a chance to clear his name before a court martial, is employed by a New York dock-building firm...
This distributing power enables Halsey, Stuart to bid confidently at prices too high for others. In the Great Northern deal no other houses are associated with Halsey, Stuart. But the Chicago firm took about one-third the risk to itself with a commitment of $32,600,000 as compared to the next highest commitments which were...