Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been feuding ever since Howe notified Drew last month that T.C.A., previously too short of planes to do the job, now had enough equipment. As a result, said Howe, the arrangement with Transocean Air Lines, a U.S. firm which had brought over most of the immigrants under a T.C.A. subcontract, would end on April 15. That, said Howe, would help Canada conserve U.S. dollars. Furthermore, Transocean was using "substandard" equipment. (Transocean uses U.S.-made DC-4s; Trans-Canada uses Canada-made North Stars, i.e., modified DC-6s with British engines...
Tractors to Generators. New sensations were touched off immediately. One Clarence Carruthers, president of a New York aeronautical supply firm, told a House subcommittee that "everybody in New York knew there were boxes and bales marked for Russia lying all over the waterfront." He added: "They've brought 60 Soviet flag ships into New York harbor since the first of the year and loaded them with everything from tractors to electric generators...
...pocket money (he sang in church choirs and in a synagogue) while he finished up at Columbia Law School. With his degree in his pocket, he spent the summer of 1925 on his first & only trip to Europe (London, Paris, Brussels), returned to enter the Manhattan law firm of Larkin, Rathbone & Perry. At the same time he jumped into local politics, worked his way up from Republican doorbell-pusher to precinct captain. He was a 29-year-old, $8,000-a-year law assistant with McNamara & Seymour when he was called into public life as chief assistant...
...employees (who once included rambunctious Frederic [The Hucksters'] Wakeman). After "long and prayerful wrestling" with this problem, Foote said, he decided to sacrifice himself, if necessary. Flying to Chicago for a Sunday meeting with Partners Fairfax Cone and Don Belding, he offered to resign from the firm if his associates decided to keep the account. But Cone and Belding would not hear of it, said Foote, so the account was dropped instead...
...after whom the famed university was named was born of good but humble stock in Boston. A diligent lad, he soon had amassed a fortune in India by selling while oxford cloth to a firm of New York merchandisers headed by the brothers Brooks...