Word: infantability
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...novel, and The Foundling leaves that solid assumption undisturbed. The foundling of Cardinal Spellman's story turns up in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral shortly after World War I. The finder is a disfigured, heartsick war veteran named Paul Taggart. He wants to adopt the infant boy, but the boy has been born to a Roman Catholic mother and Taggart is a Protestant. Taggart settles for a lifetime devotion to the youngster, beginning with visits to see him in a Catholic orphanage. The boy in his own turn grows up to suffer wounds and disfigurement...
Waving long feelers, scores of buglike vehicles scooted about Chicago's huge International Amphitheater. Like cocky midgets showing off giants' muscles, they hoisted enormous loads, effortlessly shuttled them about, gently set them down. The machines' exhibitors, the infant U.S. materials-handling industry, had a right to be cocky. They have changed the face of U.S. business...
...late Joseph Freeman, onetime Washington business agent indicted in the Garsson-May munitions scandal but later acquitted, demanded $100,000 for steering Green to the right people. Freeman never did a thing, said Green, but after he died, the truck dealer softheartedly thought of Freeman's widow and infant and settled out of court...
...Army's airborne branch (organized 1940) is only an infant. But in battle experience the airborne is a seasoned veteran with a gruff enough voice to demand its place in the sun. Last week the airborne's demands were beginning to produce results. The Air Force announced that it is setting up a new command at Greenville, S.C.-the Eighteenth Air Force-whose sole job will be carrying troopers and equipment to the battlefield...
...General Motors' export division as a trainee, was made head of the division in a year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric welding system. In early New Deal days, Bransome headed the rubber division of NRA. Says he: "I worked under old 'Ironpants' Johnson. I didn't know one thing about rubber and told NRA that, but they said: 'Then you're just...