Word: locke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French's birth. His daughter, Margaret French Cresson (who once wrote a biography of her father-TIME, June 16, 1947), had selected and arranged the show. Among its carved mementos she included some more personal ones: French's mallets and chisels, cuff links, and a golden lock of hair clipped when he was three. Also on show was a life cast of French's sinewy hand, which turned out to be precisely like that of the Lincoln in Washington...
...Opposed? "Some contend," he said, "that price increases can be prevented by public appeals and threats to invoke price legislation. That hope has already been dashed . . . This legislation before you proposes that we deliberately refuse to lock the stable door until the horse is stolen...
Glad Hand. American Export has steamed a long way from the depression days of 1935, when a syndicate headed by Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm bought it lock, stock and whistle for a skimpy $1,500,000. Incoming Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater found the line loaded to the gunwales with mortgage debt, saw that one of its main assets was its European freight representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South...
...excess profits tax, allocation of materials and manpower and other stringent controls (see WAR IN ASIA), NSRB saw no reason to take the plans out of mothballs last week. NSRB had issued "phantom" orders for $900 million worth of machine tools months ago, with instructions to manufacturers to lock them up in company safes until they got wires to put them into effect; the orders were still locked up tight. Most industrialists, like the great body of U.S. citizens, took the Korean war news calmly...
Last week, the Dutch finally and handsomely acknowledged that legends could become real. Beside the 600-year-old Spaarndam Lock, the Dutch Tourist Association had erected a bronze statue of the boy, kneeling before the dike, finger in the hole...