Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psychology. Dr. Glenn L. Ebright of Hammond, Ind. reported that cats who are frightened when taken to the hospital "become acclimated much more readily if they are kept in the same unit with dogs." If noisy, they "can often be pacified by placing a mouse in a jar where they can watch...
Planes were at last on order-almost on order-thanks to the willingness of the aviation industry to start spending money without any guarantee that they were ever going to get it back. Six key points of U. S. defense are Curtiss-Wright, Lockheed, Douglas, Consolidated, North American and Glenn L. Martin. Representatives of these six met in Washington with big Bill Knudsen of NDAC, went away with a businessman's agreement that what they probably would get in time from the Government was: 1) estimated cost plus 7% on their contracts; 2) the right to charge off (amortize...
From 8:40 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. the aging students sweated through their courses in insurance, investments, public relations, credits, economics, consumer credit, bank operations. On hand to teach them or to lecture evenings was many a big-time banker and economist: Brookings Institution's Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, American Bankers Association President Robert March Hanes, others. Courses were not highbrow. Down to earth, they told the student bankers (most of them from small towns) how to run better banks, make more money. Sample fact taught: that consumer loans are a good and profitable risk, prejudice against them...
...delegates felt other pressures too. The platform committee, meeting a week early, with the heavy foundation of the Glenn Frank Committee report to build on, still had come to no conclusion: after days of tortuous debate, they still fought over the crucial foreign policy plank...
Last week the musicians' union condemned WPA. Decca, under threat that no union man would record for it, withdrew its WPA discs from sale. Victor suppressed a recording made by Glenn Miller, not yet released. The three major radio networks banned the song, NBC explaining that it was in "bad taste." Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. alone stood its ground, although threatened with a union boycott of all its songs...