Word: frazers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Richard Frazer Allen, 66, vice chairman and longtime (1919-22, 1932-45) official of the American Red Cross, Marshall Plan mission chief of Yugoslavia (1951-52), U.S. foreign-relief program administrator (1947-48), general manager of Manhattan's men's haberdashers Rogers Peet Co. (1923-31); after long illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...have to get some sort of signal system working. Our cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin, and on around the 8.38 mile circuit past the White House...
Welfare State. In Glasgow, during the trial of Charles Frazer, 26, for indecent behavior, Prosecuting Attorney J. W. Gibbs explained the reason why so many housewives undressed for scarlet fever examinations when Frazer told them he was a health inspector: the British are "so schooled to officialdom they are hesitant to challenge credentials...
...million annual exchange of goods, and Turkey has become the No. 1 customer for Israel's manufactures. Turkey sends wheat, cotton, cattle and oil seed to Israel and last year got in return $5,000,000 worth of cars and jeeps (from Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant), $400,000 worth of antibiotics and drugs, $400,000 worth of pots and pans. Peasants in remote Anatolia now boil their weekly wash in Israeli-made pots fired by Israeli-made stoves, turned out near Israel's Ataturk Forest and carried to Istanbul in vessels of the Turkish Maritime Bank...
...Havana with ten-gallon hats and billion-barrel talk. Last week a band of ten Latin American and U.S. businessmen flew into Havana to promote the development of the country's oil resources. Among the officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Cuba and a close associate of Cuban...