Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drugs, food and other goods in exchange for the prisoners. Last week the list of donors to that $53 million was being filled out; some companies had given or pledged more than they had been listed for in previous, partial lists (TIME, Jan. 11). Among them: American Cyanamid Corp., Pearl River, N.Y., $3,300,000 (instead of the previously reported $1,000,000); Richardson-Merrill, N.Y.C., $1,337,000 (instead of $155,000); Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $1,011,000 (instead of $350,000); Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, listed as contributing an undisclosed amount, gave about...
...discrimination (he had seen a local utility company by pass the top man in an engineering class because he was Japanese, pick three lower-ranking men who were all Caucasian), Yamasaki decided to leave Seattle. In September of 1934, he arrived in Manhattan with $40 to his name. Remembering Pearl Harbor. A depression, he quickly learned, is no time to be an architect. In office after office, he found that the boss was just "sitting around reading the newspapers." So Yamasaki spent that first year in Manhattan wrapping china for an import firm. It was not until 1937 that...
...Right down the road to another Pearl Harbor...
American Cyanamid Corp., Pearl River, N.Y., $1,000,000; G. D. Searle & Co., Chicago, $900,000; Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, Ind., $800,404; Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia, $603,500; Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Summit...
Presbyopia Solemnizations. Midcult authors, writes Macdonald, exploit the discoveries of avant-garde authors. Thus, their works have an apparent profundity when they are only pretentious. Macdonald's favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every...