Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although no Cabinet crisis followed at once, the press, the public and the politicians began asking pointed questions. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood (whose Party, having opposed conscription, was partly to blame for the troops' greenness) said in a speech over the weekend: "I believe that military and naval direction of the war in Norway is competent. What I do not understand or trust is the political direction...
...incredulous as Greenwood was SEC when N. E. P. A. asked approval of the deal. He was on the witness stand for seven hours convincing the Public Utilities Division that he had nothing up his sleeve, was no stooge...
...long Greenwood will be able to continue the operations of the company is conjectural," wrote SEC in giving its doubtful blessing to the sale...
Popeyed and incredulous was Bob Greenwood when New England sought him out six months ago and offered a deal: the whole works for $1, with a king's ransom in debt ($388,427 including interest) completely wiped out, no strings attached. How New England happened to pick him, Bob Greenwood says he still does not know. But townspeople can guess: onetime furniture manufacturer, onetime chairman of the town Public Service Committee, Bob Greenwood was about as popular a businessman as there was in Gardner, and had had no steady job of late...
...sanguine new President Greenwood did not see how he could lose. For in addition to the physical assets of the plant, which have a possible salvage value of around $11,000, he has also taken over $11,715 in quick assets-$6,324 in cash, the rest in receivables, materials, prepaid accounts. If gross could be increased, debt-free Gardner Gas might yet become a fair moneymaker for its president, his five employes. To do that, Bob Greenwood had an idea on which (between meters) he worked last week. He went looking for off-main customers in the country...