Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comfortably cool in his air-conditioned office, President James M. Skinner Jr., of Philadelphia's Philco Corp., leafed through his weather reports last week and broke out a sunny smile. "It hit 90° in Indianapolis, 91° in Chicago, 92° in Cleveland, 93° in Knoxville, and even higher in the Deep South," he exulted. "If only this nice hot, humid weather continues, we'll really sell air conditioners this year...
...enemies figured out other ways to attack him. Wholesalers who had previously helped him asked him to take his business elsewhere. Said one: "I like your business, M. Leclerc, but every time I sell you 1,000,000 francs worth of goods, I lose 30 million in canceled orders elsewhere." When things looked black, Leclerc's plight came to official attention in Paris. Economic Minister Antoine Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices...
...lead an ordinary life doing ordinary things," said the short, sandy-haired woman waiting to be called as an honored guest to the platform in Washington's resplendent Departmental Auditorium last week. "I'm just doing what other people are doing." Dr. Anne Carlsen, 43, was right in a way. She just does "what other people are doing," but with a difference: she does it with no arms, and with artificial legs. The President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped could have found no more logical recipient for its annual trophy award to the "Handicapped...
...hooked to her stump. Dr. Carlsen attends conventions all over the country, traveling easily by plane or train if it is too far to drive. But driving she loves, in a car with special controls, like those for handicapped veterans. "It's the only thing I'm proud of," she says. And since Dr. Carlsen got her license in 1954, she has safely driven 42,000 miles...
Among Faculty members who have attended the dinners are Dean Bundy and Professors John M. Bullitt, Charles R. Cherington, I. Bernard Cohen, Raphael Demos, Oscar Handlin, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Harry T. Levin, Henry A. Murray, Leonard K. Nash, David Riesman, and Samuel A. Stouffer...