Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oak Ridge...
Those were bitter acorns on Charlie Wilson'ss oak, which last season bore washing machines, toasters and television sets...
Claverly was described in those days as having "the only really secluded location to be obtained near the square . . . quiet and secluded, for Linden Street is used by only a few dozen people a day." The building had a "solid mahogany vestibule . . . marble floors . . . walls sheathed with antique oak . . . stairways lighted by stain glass windows . . . and speaking tubes and electric bells to the janitor...
...most expensive suites were the four famous "ebony rooms" which were furnished "In the richest of the darkest shades of antique oak clear to the ceiling...
...that if anyone could do the job, it could be done by Executive Vice President Charles Allen Thomas, 51. A brilliant scientist (D.Sc., M.I.T. '33), Thomas had helped develop no-knock ethyl gasoline, was awarded the civilian Medal for Merit for his work as project director of the Oak Ridge A-bomb plant during World War II, is now boss of several AEC projects being carried out by Monsanto. Thomas is confident that private industry can develop atomic power more cheaply than the Government. Said he: "It will serve the additional purpose of giving the country a check...