Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Historian Seymour had four years to go before the mandatory Yale retirement age of 68 took effect, but he had decided that the university needed a "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort." He wanted to give Yale plenty of time to find it. He would not actually leave, he said, until July...
Alarmed, the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association called emergency meetings to push an appeal for a rehearing on the decision. Cried Secretary-Manager R. Q. Richards: "If this decision stands, I predict that within three years at least 300 businesses, most of them small units, will go broke." Said jubilant Doc Webb: "For the man in the street, it is the people's victory against price-fixing...
Self-conscious because of his youth and size, Winston hired a distinguished-looking man of 70 to go around with him as a front for his deals. Before he was 34 he had bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's. He also learned that gem buying could be tricky. Once he bought $90,000 worth which he later found had been taken from Socialite Mrs. Isaac Emerson, wife of the Bromo-Seltzer king. Winston had to return...
Shipping. The U.S. Maritime Commission gave the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the go-ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record...
Chaucer v. Black Hats. In a London hotel, watching the faces of those about him, Tom thinks: "When Chaucer wrote of pilgrimage . . . then every man knew where he was, and where he could go. But now all is confusion and no one has anywhere to go. They leave home only to sit under glass roofs, in black overcoats and black hats, with faces so private and cunning that you are afraid of them...