Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge is of course sorry to lose the big Lever executive offices and research laboratories which, together, furnished 1300 jobs. But the firm's manufacturing plant of 1500 workers will stay right on in Cambridge and even expand itself somewhat. Moreover, it looks as if the Lever offices and Laboratories won't be idle for long...
...were installed temporarily in the federal jail until they raised $15,000 bail apiece. Amtorg, which calls itself a private corporation, was indicted for failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The Russians (and a sixth who is in Russia) were indicted for their part in the firm's refusal to sign...
Some critics seized on the fact that the U.S. play was co-sponsored by Britain's Arts Council, and tax-exempt as a cultural offering by a non-profit-making producer. They demanded an airing in Parliament. With tickets selling into January, an official of the producing firm asked plaintively: "How did we know the thing was going to make money...
...Cincinnati had ever known of the notebooks that bitter Mrs. Trollope was carrying home up her raveled sleeve, they would have found some way to keep her in town. "I cannot speculate," said the redoubtable old dame, "and I cannot reason; but I can see and hear." The London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard in the Midwest...
...jigsaw puzzle assignment went to the New York firm that originally made the window. The repair work was paid for by the Harvard Club of New York...