Word: haling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Howard Hale McClintic, 72, engineer, whose far-flung steel-fabricating company (McClintic-Marshall Corp.) built the Panama Canal locks; from an embolism; in Pittsburgh, Pa. Founded at the turn of the century when the Mellons put up a $150,000 stake for McClintic and his partner, Charles Donnell Marshall, McClintic-Marshall paid more than $8,000,000 in dividends up to 1931, when it became a part of Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...remarries, his friends think one good reason will be that he finds it hard to be a mother and an executive at the same time. He says it is nobody's g_ _ d_ _ _ business whether he is en gaged, as reported last spring, to Mrs. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, a beauteous Pittsburgh-born glamor girl whose legend starts from a convent and includes a Broadway chorus, luxurious homes in Paris and Southampton, sculp ture, breeding wire-haired dachshunds, life as an artist's wife (the late Gardner Hale, muralist) and the movies...
...industrial East, and the country is started back on the highroad to good times. . . . Some of our friends . . . may think we have had an overdose of proximity with the famous Roosevelt personality. It is fine to be able to report that the President is in great fettle, hale and hearty, imbued with confidence, cheerful and relaxed, enjoying life and his big job to the fullest. We aver that our opinions are based upon broad observations. . . . But we can't deny that we are also influenced by the calm confidence of the President. He isn't selling the country...
This story is likely to be told whenever U. S. physicists and astronomers get together socially or professionally, but only to very young scientists because all the older ones know it. Today, prankish Dr. Wood is a hale old man with a fine pink skin and clear blue eyes, who scorns an overcoat on the coldest days and goes about like a college boy, with garterless socks drooping over his shoes. He is full of years and honors, and more cognizant of the latter than of the former. But he was 70 last May, and Johns Hopkins requires retirement...
Vain were the efforts of Senators Hale and Maloney to forbid the use of PWA money to build plants competing with private industry (see p. 59), equally vain Senators' attempts to earmark money, for rivers & harbors, flood control, or PWA projects already approved. The President in a letter to Colorado's Adams, used the magic word "Emergency!" The money must be spent quickly, he said, to bridge the summer gap before private industry can begin adding to its payrolls in the winter. This reasoning defeated also a provision to have the spending spread over a full eight months...