Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
Last week at a long mahogany table in Washington's Commerce Department Building a group of scientists and engineers sat down for their first meeting. Appointed by Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins, the National Inventors' Council has only one reason for existence: to listen to all inventors, cracked or solid, tap them for soundness. Head of the council was one of the U. S.'s most famed industrial scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter...
Speaking of music in wartime, British Poet Stephen Spender reported in his otherwise literate September Journal: "[T. S.] Eliot said that he did not care to listen to Beethoven so much as formerly just now. We both agreed on Bach and Gluck...
...Alpine snuggery, rescinded his ban on dancing and decreed that his countrymen could dance on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 7 p.m. and curfew. He also granted them permission to tune in on Nazi-occupied Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and France, but still forbade them under pain of beheading to listen to Denmark, which, at least theoretically, is not "subject to German sovereignty...
Analyst McKay interested McCann-Erickson, agency for Borden's Dairy Delivery Co.,in his work. Last week when one of Borden's newspots fell vacant, McCann-Erickson asked McKay to listen to an applicant for the job. McKay recommended that Newscaster Stearns, already doing two daily broadcasts for Borden's, be assigned yet another...