Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was about all that newsmen could pin down last week when John Deferrari, now a bony, brisk bachelor of 84, gave an amazed Boston Public Library more than $1,000,000 to set up a trust fund. For the presentation, he showed up in an uncomfortably new grey suit, the side pockets of which were fastened with safety pins as a protection against pickpockets. The library's board gratefully accepted his gift and agreed to his stipulation that income from the fund be used to build a John Deferrari wing containing his portrait...
...Night. The first refugee came down the Vigour's gangplank peacefully. They kept coming for three hours. British soldiers helped them carry their bundles. Then, suddenly, in one of the holds refugees broke into their song Going Home ("Never say that we are treading our last path, our grey days will become sunny days . . ."), and refused to budge. The British soldiers tried to push or carry them off the boat. They got tougher with some recalcitrants, but the British later declared that casualties had been negligible...
...first ten days of the fair, $5,700,000 worth of contracts were signed. Germans, who had hoped for much more, were bitter. Said a grey-haired Siemens-Schuckert representative with a saber scar on his cheek: "Our labor productivity is down about 50%, our wages are frozen, our raw material costs are up, and we are expected to sell at a world market price...
...maneuver gained him a head start on the rush of students down the center aisle. Once in the street, he strode rapidly -his black gown billowing behind his grey flannel trousers-to the nearest pub for a pint...
Among the nation's 2,584,000 unemployed last month, perhaps the most distinguished was grey-haired Ralph K. Davies of Woodside, Calif. He had joined the Standard Oil Co. of California as a 16-year-old junior clerk, rose to $57,000 (a year) as senior vice president, and was in line for its presidency when, in 1941, he left to run the wartime oil industry for Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. His war job done, Davies found himself relegated to a minor vice presidency at Standard. He resigned rather than let Ickes-who had bought ten shares...