Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly had they finished their schooling at Exeter and Yale when they started wildcatting for themselves. In partnership with Stepbrother Charles Urschel Jr., they operated Slick Oil Co., struck it lucky in south Texas and in Mississippi. Tom Slick Jr. branched out. He got dozens of patents on gadgets he invented, everything from fishhooks to oilfield equipment; he ran an experimental Hereford breeding farm, launched a frozen-food locker. When war came, he went to work for the Federal Government on oil jobs, went into the Navy and is now on his way home from Japan to aid the latest...
Without Love. Theirs had been a profitable partnership, with no love lost between the partners. Their breezy, right-from-the-feedbox style sounded cozy-but its creators were as uncooperative as Gilbert & Sullivan. They were notably cool toward each other, worked separate beats, sometimes got together by telephone only once...
...stage last week. The scattering of angry critics both on Capitol Hill and in Parliament was not likely to hold up its projected run to the year 2000, for the two greatest traders in the world needed each other. The terms meant that they would work in closer economic partnership than ever before...
Queen Wilhelmina, looking tired and strained, had a word for her seething Indonesian subjects last week. In her first speech from the throne in six years, she addressed them across the distant barricades. Promising-as she had promised before (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942)-partnership in a "Netherlands Commonwealth," she said: "Ideas of revenge do not possess us, nor does the establishment of colonial domination...
...death, Rosenman packed up for Manhattan and a private law practice (possibly a partnership with ex-FEA attorney Oscar Cox). But someone had to help out Harry Truman. Resignedly, Rosenman briefed the new President on the Roosevelt work and policies, helped write Truman's first message to Congress and his foreign-policy speech, was soon reported to be exercising more influence over Truman than he had over FDR. But Rosenman was not interested in influence. Also, Democrats were beginning to talk about that shadowy figure again. This time, "Sammy the Rose" said he was gone for good...