Word: industrialistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...loud resentment because Leopold had: 1) surrendered to Germany in 1940 instead of continuing the war in exile; 2) married a commoner, comely Mademoiselle Marie-Lelia Baels, while most of his subjects were suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince Baudouin, 14, whom Leopold's younger brother, Prince Regent Charles, was training for the pleasures of kingship...
Doctor of Laws: Bradley Dewey '08, former Rubber Director of the War Production Board: President of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company in Cambridge: "A Cambridge industrialist whose Herculean labors in a federal office gave us the rubber on which we now roll to victory...
...Essen I talked to an industrialist who was sitting in his bare room, playing Mozart on a violin. I remarked that it would be easier to abandon the present site of Essen and go into the open country and build there. No, he said, they had considered that. But they had decided that it would be easier to rebuild Essen on its present site: electricity conduits, gas and water mains were already in the ground...
...Senators were Montana's Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's Albert W. Hawkes, ex-industrialist and onetime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In Rome, they had attended a forum with 250 soldiers at a Red Cross club. It was a stormy session...
...fill a troublesome spot on the Surplus Property Board, Harry Truman once again reached out to Missouri. He got set to call in 43-year-old W. Stuart Symington Ill, president of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., and a topflight U.S. industrialist...