Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emancipation abroad. "You are all," Gertrude Stein said, "a lost generation." But even the sober homebodies found reason to feel disenchanted. There they were, says Philosopher Arthur E. Murphy of the University of Washington, fighting for The People against the Vested Interests, and the people blandly sent Warren G. Harding to the White House...
...paid executives in U.S. industry? In a survey of 400 key executives, Business Week magazine reported that the top three all made more than $700,000 in salary and bonus last year. Best paid: General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice with $776,400. Second was Bethlehem Steel Chairman Eugene G. Grace with $705,923, and third G.M.'s Board Chairman Albert Bradley with $701,525. Right behind was Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt, whose $642,619 came from a $178,619 salary and a whopping $464,000 bonus. A few notches lower, Chrysler Corp. President L. L. Colbert...
...Ford Motor Co.'s Chairman Ernest R. Breech and President Henry Ford 11; General Motors Executive Vice Presidents Louis C. Goad and Frederic G. Donner...
...Union Carbide's President Morse G. Dial, American Tobacco's President Paul M. Hahn, Arnico Steel's President W. W. Sebald, National Steel's Chairman Ernest Tener Weir and President Thomas E. Millsop...
...years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City mob the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history...