Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All morning and all afternoon some of the biggest names of U.S. foreign policy slipped unobtrusively into the White House for top-secret meetings. Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. was in and out of the President's office all day; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
"Money has to be sold the same way that suits and dresses are." Today that slogan is a banker's commonplace. Yet when young Lewis Douglas Meredith argued the point in his Ph.D. thesis at Yale in 1933, it was far from accepted doctrine. Bankers sat on their funds...
The balloon rose rapidly, glinting in the sun. At 56,400 ft., Commander Lewis reported that he and Commander Ross were having coffee, a prime necessity of Navy men. Somewhat later he remarked that the sky was clear and dark blue-black. The balloon continued to climb. In two hours...
Everything so far had gone well. Ross and Lewis dropped the balloon intentionally to 75,000 ft. and started to make the observations that were the purpose of the flight. Then the trouble started.
AMERICAN COAL SHIPPING Inc., the export combine of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, seven mine operators and three coal-hauling railroads (TIME, Oct. 15) will buy control of Bull Lines's 15-ship fleet for $45 to $50 million. Pending approval by Federal Maritime Board, shipping company...