Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williamson and friends expected, passenger revenues dropped-the New York Central's falling 17% in August, compared with 1937, the B. & O.'s 19.5%, the New Haven's 3%. This slump continued until the Christmas holidays, when the roads experimentally restored the old low rates, got an immediate lift. Hence last week's committee...
...landing but no boat ("You've never seen anything like it outside of the movies," says Brother Max). One day last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest; farming and sailing are his hobbies...
Last week the merger was a reality. Engineered by clever Tom Dennehy, who became president of the new Sprague Warner, it gave both companies what they most needed. Harry and Maxwell Kunin (who became secretary-treasurer and vice president) got bigger manufacturing and distributing facilities, the prestige of Sprague Warner's name. Sprague Warner got the Kunins. Nobody put up any money. To reports that he had bought out Sprague Warner, Harry Kunin replied: "Where the hell would I lay my hands...
...When she got there the cupboard...
Walker Evans, 35, and Edward Weston, 52, were born in St. Louis and Highland Park, Ill., respectively, but Evans went east and Weston went west. Like most artists of his generation, Evans got as far east as Paris. He returned to photograph life on the eastern seaboard with solitary detachment, a refined eye and a sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first...