Word: minds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent to an old soldiers' home, preferably one with barbed wire around it," and sneeringly referred to the Chinese Nationalist armed forces as a "rubber dagger" and a "toothless...
Having at last closed the culture gap, Director Hinkhouse is already planning a new $750,000 museum wing. "Man needs a good diet for the mind," Hinkhouse points out. "The art museum helps complete the menu...
...week's end, Alleghany Chairman Kirby was trying to make up his mind whether to fight to keep control or not. He owns 524,000 shares of Alleghany common, about 10%, also holds 148,000 shares of 6% convertible preferred and warrants for another 226,440 shares of common. If he converts his preferred and exercises his warrants, he will have close to 1,450,000 shares of common to Sonnabend's 700,000 shares-and the common elects five of the nine directors...
...company's fees were about $1,800,000 a year when Booz retired in 1946 and Hamilton died. The job of coordinating, i.e., managing, partner fell to James L. Allen, then 41, a scholarly Kentuckian with a steel-trap mind for remembering facts and a punch-card sorting machine's ability to organize them. Holding that management analysts should continuously analyze themselves, Allen set up a think department to do nothing but figure out new services the firm could offer to an ever widening circle of clients...
...headquarters and tele-typed the message to General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief of staff at Berchtesgaden. Jodl did nothing, on the assumption that Rundstedt. overall commander in the west, had sounded the alert. Rundstedt did nothing on the assumption that Rommel was alerted. Either Rommel's mind was on the grey suede shoes, or. as Author Ryan argues, his own estimate of Allied intentions led him to discount the warning and leave the front. On the evening of June 5, Meyer caught the second part of the message: "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone [Wounding...