Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these steps did not go far enough, Chile planned to create a state-controlled Corporation del Cobre which would control the production, price and distribution of all Chilean copper. In effect, U.S. companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside U.S. borders. Chile was reluctant to take the move. But its determination to stand on its own economic feet, whether well-shod by U.S. dollars or not, was too strong to permit an alternative...
Then she turned to the deadly virus of Russian spring-and-summer encephalitis, injected it into the abdominal cavity of cancerous mice. In about two days the firm, round tumors turned into blobs of pus. All the cancer cells apparently died. But the virus then went on and attacked the nerves and brain. Four days later the mice, apparently cured of cancer, died of encephalitis. Nonetheless, the virus had shown a dramatic differential effect. It went first to the tumor and thrived there before attacking the brain...
...liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville, a distant Spreckels kin and longtime employee of the company, was glad to help in the liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans and Dorothy C. Spreckels. The sisters are the only members of the Spreckels clan still interested in the family business...
Claire kept right on helping her father after her marriage in 1930 to blond Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, Stanford fullback and captain (1928). She also became a general (inactive) partner with a sizable interest in Biff's brokerage firm, and the company got its share of Bank of America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person...
...What is involved," said the University head, "is an attitude, a state of mind, which influences a man's whole character and guides his reactions to-ward both persons and problems. Two manifestations of this attitude will be a deep sense of social responsibility and a firm conviction that the golden age lies ahead of us, not behind...