Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known that he intended to play plenty of golf (he used to shoot in the low 703) and take a three-month trip to Europe. But last week 64-year-old Roger Lapham decided to leave his clubs in the locker room and forswear the Grand Tour. The reason: Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman had tapped him for chief of ECA's $338 million China aid mission. It was one of the toughest jobs going...
...This body was to act as an arbitrator on all questions concerning religious conflict, national frontiers, internal disturbance and common action against any danger from the east-which in those days meant the Turks. This he called the Grand Design...
...After this long passage of time we are the servants of the Grand Design...
...easier, far better." Last week the American Hyalsol Corp., which owns the basic patents for Dreft (as well as for Drene, Shasta, Teel and other cleansers), had an occasion for considering the Dreft slogan. It was accused of having its closets full of dirty linen. In a Manhattan grand jury indictment, the Government charged that 1) the company was a front for the German soapmakers, Henkel & Cie.; 2) Hyalsol had dodged $500,000 in taxes. It was, trumpeted antitrust lawyers, "one of the largest and most cleverly operated frauds against the Government ever uncovered...
Marks and Littell, it was charged, also set up an intermediary company in Switzerland and wrote themselves letters showing Hyalsol heavily in debt to the Swiss company. The royalties collected in the U.S. were turned over as payments on this fictitious debt, said the grand jury, and drawn out by Henkel, thus avoiding U.S. income taxes...