Word: p
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bendix Aviation Corp. in South Bend, Ind. had strangled production of military jet engines, was also slowly throttling the flow of spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers...
...Terrific is the only word . . ." wrote the Times-Star's Louis John Johnen. "Way above what we have come to consider par," mildly agreed the Enquirer's John P. Rhodes. Soprano Stella Roman and Tenor Kurt Baum won cheers all round for their singing (he especially for the aria, Come un bel dl di Maggio)*and Stella got a few extra cheers for her natural, convincing stage manner...
...work harder for his hospital than he had bargained for. He had not realized that the festival (which Hutchins calls "the greatest cultural event ever held in the U.S.") would be held at 7,930-ft.-high Aspen-a onetime ghost town recently bought by Box Tycoon Walter P. Paepcke and turned into a resort. Later he learned that he was scheduled to make his address twice, once in French and once in German, on different days. And last week it was announced that Dr. Schweitzer would be awarded an honorary degree from the University of Chicago, which meant that...
Died. Baron Edouard de Rothschild, 81, titular head of the fourth generation of the House of Rothschild; in Paris. One of the world's wealthiest bankers (in 1935 his personal fortune was estimated at $55 million), Baron Rothschild lost his property to the Pétain government in 1940 when he and his wife fled to the U.S. (they managed to get out with $1,000,000 in jewels...
...Point of No Return - John P. Marquand...