Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry, but the public knew him hardly at all. "Business," Humphrey used to say, "is judged by performance and if you perform you don't need to talk . . . I've always discouraged the people I know from making speeches." Humphrey will...
...Magic Sound. As soon as he sits down in his office, problems are ready to pop out at him like clay pigeons at a skeet shoot. For example, some $69 billion of the $267 billion public debt will come due during 1953-Since the $69 billion obviously can't be paid off, it will have to be refinanced...
...capital that is dried up by a tax that falls on an efficient expandable business. Humphrey, like most businessmen, is violently opposed to E.P.T., and would-on principle-love to drop it when it expires June 30. But the New Deal era has given "excess profits" such a magic sound that Humphrey will have to make the real meaning of E.P.T. clear to the Congress and the country...
Manhattanites flocked to the show, eager to pay their respects and up to $6,000 for a sample of the old man's magic. John Marin himself bobbed up for an hour to see how his pictures looked on the gallery wall, then hustled back to his paintboxes. At 82, he still tramps the countryside on good days, looking, studying, sketching. People sometimes ask him how he keeps his eye so clear and .fresh. "I can't tell," he says. "It's mostly instinct...
...discomfitted his chemistry professor by a few knowing sorties into the field of quantitative analysis, something he wasn't supposed to take up until his sophomore year in college. He bought himself equipment for a laboratory his father had set up for him in an old shack by giving "magic shows" for kids in his neighborhood; he billed himself as "the Young Edison," charged admission, and performed some of the more spectacular experiments in the beginner's repertory. At school he kept up with his serious chemistry while captaining the second crew and editing the school paper...