Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jobs. Last week PRIDC, now headed by energetic Teodoro Moscoso Jr., announced that under agreements reached with private firms, 40 new plants were in operation or planned; five other companies were dickering to set up factories. Biggest of the newcomers is Textron Inc., which abruptly closed its Nashua, N.H. plant (TIME, Sept. 27) and is now finishing the first of five factories to manufacture rayon and other textiles in Puerto Rico. Other new plants include Tele-tone (radio tubes and equipment), Crane China, Fashion Rite Gloves...
...Ralph Bunche, the U.N.'s successful untangler of Arab-Jewish relations, arrived home in New York to be greeted at the dock by his wife and five-year-old Ralph Jr. Also on the welcoming detail: U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie and some bored policemen, assigned to handle an anticipated crowd of admirers that never turned up. Later in the week, though, the American Association for the United Nations announced that it was giving Statesman Bunche a scroll for "distinguished service...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...
Dudley completed its two-day balloting yesterday, and re-elected Henry M. Silveira, Jr...
Adams, William D. Mulholland, Jr. '50; Dunster, Charles R. Brynteson '50; Eliot, Albert B. Carter, Jr. '59; Kirkland, Patrick B. McCormick '50; Leverett, D. Broward Craig '50; Lowell, David C. Poskanzer...