Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last December W. R. Grace & Co. got good & mad. The four Panagra directors named by Pan Am refused to let Panagra petition for a route north from Panama. So Grace went ahead on its own hook, filed an application-complaint with CAB. The application: a terminal for Panagra in New Orleans, Tampa or Miami. The complaint: "connecting service [by Pan Am] has become increasingly inadequate. . . . [The new route] would forever free the Panagra service from dependence on a connecting carrier . .. whose interests can never be expected to be exclusively service to the Panagra route." Pan Am says it has fulfilled...
...Roscoe Drumond wrote a lead story exposing 95 pro-Axis publications which are carrying the Berlin-Tokyo party line to millions of Americans. Magazines, mimeographed pamphlets, and newssheets published in almost every state are doing as much damage as if Goebbels were broadcasting every day to us on national hook-up. They all say essentially the same things. Roosevelt started the war. Churchill started the war. The Jew started the war. The Communists started the war. Father Coughlin's rabble rousing "Social justice" is still permitted to accuse the United States of invading Ireland, to put the blame...
...Guaragnella began buying soup-fin shark at $40 a ton, the fishing fleet thought he was crazy. But soon the secret was out and prices zoomed to $240, $500, $1,200 and finally, last fall, to $1,500 a ton. Fishermen went shark staring mad. With their 6,000-hook trawls and quarter-mile gill nets they hauled in as much as $3,800 a week and roared around the water fronts orie-eyed with Napa Valley...
Kaiser had already begun the decentralization on his own hook. He started building his own engines in California, has a blast furnace there, hopes to make plate. Shipbuilders regarded his independence as inevitable, even as part of the original deal. By that deal, Kaiser in effect swapped his engineering skill for lessons in shipbuilding. Now he has his lessons, Todd its ways...
...Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt was a cagey tester, did not show his detailed drawing until he was sure that the local factories had doped out the directory properly on their own hook. But in ten days he had signed ten contracts...