Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list sometime around Jan. 1; 3) Surgeon Charles Marshall Davison, son of a former Cook County Hospital surgical chief, warm friend of Dr. Meyer and of A.M.A. propriety as well, was appointed new Cook County director; 4) five medical aides-de-camp were assigned to Dr. Davison. General McCloskey will continue to run only the mechanical departments of the hospital...
...supplementary SEC report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a note of caution: Yellow Truck, its almost wholly owned subsidiary, has enough business to carry it through June 1940, had been set to pay off its $14-a-share preferred dividend arrearage. Instead, the G. M. management drew in its horns, paid only half...
...majority of its 67,000 employes, last week big General Electric Co. cut a $4,750,000 holiday melon. The melon consisted of two parts. Under its profit-sharing plan,* instituted in 1934, employes of five or more years' service shared $2,400,000 (compared to $556,800 last year). Under the three-year-old plan of adjusting wages to the cost of living (U. S. Department of Labor Index), employes shared another $2,350,000 (almost $1,000,000 less than 1938). Together, the two bonuses add 5-75% to employes' earnings for 1939's last...
From the Continental come terse, dry bulletins issued by the Army General Staff, and cunning propaganda stories (of plots to restore the Kaiser, failure of German food supplies) concocted by Playwright Giraudoux himself. There, too, in sumptuous rooms that once housed U. S. tourists, censors sit poring over proofs of tomorrow's papers, ferreting out lines that might give information to the enemy...
...Amid falling snow at midnight, out of a carriage bundled a mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young...