Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before attempting to track a course through this maze of opinion, Professor Zimmerman will remind you that there are at least a few objective facts about his controversial career: such as being born in Raymore, Missouri, in 1897, attending five universities, having three children, and holding jobs ranging from farming to advising the Government of Thailand on Economic Policy. In this Siamese job, he advocated for the inland regions of the country a corps of "junior doctors" to diagnose and prescribe medical treatment for easily-recognizable tropical diseases. This suggestion caused a tremendous blow-off, and was condemned...
With the Cord Corp. in hand, V.E. changed his tactics. The crash of one empire had taught him a lesson. Instead of mushrooming all over, he tried to make some sense out of the rickety maze of companies (45) he had. He wanted to turn Cord, the bad holding company, into a good operating company. One of his first moves was to drop the Cord name, substitute Aviation and Transportation Corp. for the top holding company. Then, like a horse trader, he sold, bartered and junked the money-losing companies in ATCO and AVCO and a holding company of lower...
From there on the trail followed by the Meadmen was a maze of 16 interlocked companies whose assets were kited back and forth with the stroke of a pen. Up went the combine's contracts-at war's end they had got $78,000,000 worth of business out of the Government...
Upon these basic rules (and others closely related), physicists built an imposing structure of knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
...cool for June, Vag thought, as he came out of the Harvard Square kiosk and put down his B-4 bag. He lighted a cigarette, picked up his bag and cautiously waited for an opening in the maze of automobiles...