Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger Dearborn Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth...
...also found time to write such peculiar radio dramas as The Emotional and Psychological Reaction of the Women Who Killed the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. In 1937 young Auden received the King's Medal for the year's best poetry...
...league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden Jubilee . . . may your score card continue to wave from the dugout...
...Golden Opportunity. The report also held that the distillers showed "monopolistic tendencies"; that the industry is virtually controlled by the Big Four-Schenley Distillers Corp., Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, National Distillers Products Corp., and Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts. In 1939, the Big Four had 49% of the U.S. whiskey supply in their warehouses; today they have 70%. They got this enormous increase by adding some 127,066,629 proof gallons to their stocks through the purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price...
...Business-Or 20. The Fishers next broke another lifetime rule. In their paneled, deep-carpeted offices on the 27th floor of their golden-towered Fisher Building, they held their first press conference. Shoulder to shoulder the four brothers let some 30 reporters question them. The reporters learned little. The brothers vaguely explained that they had been planning to leave G.M. for the last seven years, had finally decided to do so six weeks ago. The parting had been completely friendly...