Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fumed Oak, billed as "an unpleasant comedy," is the best of the lot. After 17 dreary years of marriage, a respectable suburbanite walks out on his nagging wife, shrewish mother-in-law and doltish daughter. But first, he tells them all off. Betty Ann Davies, Mary Merrall and Dorothy Gordon are suitably unpleasant as the ladies, and Stanley Holloway is just about right as the long-suffering worm who turns...
...chairman of the board of Pittsburgh's Vitro Manufacturing Co. and a wartime leader in the Manhattan Project; of a heart attack; in Summit, N.J. In 1943-45, heading a group of 2,000 top U.S. scientists and engineers, he directed the secret planning and construction of Oak Ridge's $500,000,000 Uranium 235 separating plant, completed it five precious weeks ahead of schedule...
Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes's first piece of fan mail after he took over his broad oak desk in the Pentagon last February was a postcard from a Tennessean who, after seeing Kyes's picture in the paper, wrote: "You look to me as though you could spit in the devil's eye." Big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), craggy Roger Kyes* makes a similar impression on people who encounter him face to face. After meeting him for the first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind...
Mannequins & Skaters. The way out was Oak Park, Mich.'s Palmer Paint Co., which he bought with a down payment of $4,000 that he had saved (and $4,000 he borrowed from friends). With two full-time employees and a part-time office girl, the company grossed $2,500 a month selling poster paint to artist supply houses. "I saw right off the bat," says Klein, "that the field was too confined." He soon expanded it by selling his paints to mannequin makers and skating rinks (for painting designs under ice). "Well, today we are a big supplier...
...last week Klein had 800 employees in plants in Detroit, Oak Park, and Tiffin, Ohio, turning out 50,000 sets a day (retail price: $2.50 and $5.00) for a gross of more than $1,000,000 a month. This week, to meet the demand, he will lease another factory in Paterson, N.J. and add another 400 people to his payroll...