Word: leese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But many businessmen might blink at the narrow control in some industries not usually mentioned in the same breath with aluminum or tobacco. Carpetmakers, for example, were dominated by four firms, Alexander Smith & Sons, James Lees & Sons, Bigelow-Sanford and Mo hawk Carpet, which owned 57.9% of the industry'...
In Manhattan, Gimbels threw a crowd-catching sale of summer furniture-and put thousands of Easter hats on the counters at $5 and up. In San Francisco, the City of Paris store slashed prices a third to a half on $160,000 worth of draperies. Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford...
Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political...
But even now, with two files, we have complications. For example: our military files are loaded with 4,800 Smiths, 3,200 Johnsons, 1,800 Joneses, 180 Goldbergs, 22 MacArthurs, and 23 Halseys (ten of them in the Navy). Furthermore, there are 246 Robert Smiths, 108 William Johnsons, 83 Charles...
Naval Science puts its members through a four year course, ordinarily, with a commission at the end. Designed to produce deck officers, the course emphasizes seamanship, navigation, gunnery, and communications. Students enroll for a four year stretch, and the present crop will all finish their college courses and must got...