Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and brother Roland decided not to deliver any more milk. Dropped because of rising production costs (materials and labor) : deliveries to 2,000-odd rural doorsteps from the Harrimans' commercial dairy in Arden...
...Federal Government thought that the devil was simply the boom. "People have more money to spend," said Secretary of Commerce Harriman, "and they are bidding against each other." For example, meat consumption this year-155 lbs. per capita-is the highest since...
...editors blinked at his definition of news: "No news is often the best news. . . . The Enterprise is not above reporting that 'Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Harriman stayed home over the weekend.' This satisfies many of the requirements of the ideal news item, even if no other newspaper [knows] it. It gets Ken's name in the paper, informs his neighbors what he is doing, and entices the attention of people who never heard of him, if only to make them comment that this is one hell of a newspaper...
Right along, Maniu had seen what was coming. In 1945, when Britain's Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel) and the U.S.'s Averell Harriman "guaranteed" democratic rights in Rumania, Maniu had asked Harriman: "If the prefect of Constantsa falsifies the election list, will Britain send her fleet? The U.S. mobilize her army?" In 1947 Maniu answered himself: "The prefect of Constantsa did falsify the list. But there was no sign of the British fleet, no sound of American mobilization. Instead the prefect of Constantsa is still in office...
Reached by telephone at his Danville vacation retreat yesterday afternoon, Professor Mason was at first completely unaware that he had been chosen to prepare a report with 18 other educational business, and industrial leaders under the chairmanship of W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce...