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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gordon's first big public job was to set up a foreign-exchange control system at the beginning of World War II. He did so well that the government borrowed him for the much tougher job of running the Wartime Prices and Trade Board...
Essentially, the C.N.R. presidency is a job of selling the public. Many a Canadian has criticized the road as a white elephant and urged that it be joined to the privately owned Canadian Pacific. Gordon, who will take over on Jan. i, is expected to drum home the theme that C.N.R. is a national necessity (e.g., it maintains services vital to national development), and to follow through with changes that will lighten its financial load...
...Cohens eventually decided that they had better hire a lawyer to advise them. They had to rent a loft in a warehouse (at $50 a month) to store the prizes as they arrived. For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands...
...job was to find just how to vary the current. To make the fish wiggle properly, he discovered, the intensity of the current must rise suddenly and die away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed to the natural swimming motions of the fish. Since little fish move their tails faster than big fish, the pulses must come closer together (about 20 per second) to catch little fish. A current with two pulses per second catches big ones...
...Quiet Beer. As a lone wolf who sometimes puts in 20 hours a day on his job, Presbrey has few friends among his more relaxed colleagues. Their grudging admiration is mixed with wonder at the chances he takes. In 1934, prowling in St. Paul, he stepped right into a gun fight between policemen and two robbers who were holding up a milk company. A policeman's bullet went through the shoulder padding of Presbrey's coat, wounded a robber...