Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small businessman, Wallace F. Bennett, as its next president. He succeeds Big Businessman Morris Sayre, president of Corn Products Refining Co. A friendly, easy-talking man of 50, Bennett began learning about business early. During high school and college he worked summers in his father's Salt Lake City paint and varnish company. He likes to quote his father's credo: "No transaction of any kind is any good unless both sides profit from...
...years ago, two Seattle undertakers, John F. Hennessy and Earl J. Cassedy, had a snack of cold turkey sandwiches with a friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile skidded and plunged...
...weeks, tension mounted and rumors grew. Venezuelans began to pray that handsome, tuberculous Lieut. Colonel Mario Vargas would return from his Saranac Lake, N.Y. sickbed. The army liked Vargas. He was also a close friend of both Gallegos and Betancourt. Vargas, people said, would straighten things...
Next unit after Koror will probably be on Saipan, whose capture cost 3,040 U.S. lives. The Navy, which rules Saipan, has set aside as Memorial Reservations two areas, one a lake, the other a mountain peak still covered with virgin forest. When enough money has been raised, the Pacific War Memorial will have stations manned with scientists all over the U.S. Pacific, and a headquarters in Honolulu to organize the information that is gathered...
...that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...