Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt locked the barn door last week and ordered a searching party out to look for the horse. The President with quick strokes of a pen affixed his signature to an order freezing all Axis assets in the U.S., along with those of all other European countries not yet frozen...
...flag ships would take over Britain's shipping services to Australia and New Zealand (thus releasing British ships for combat-zone traffic), Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Maritime Commission to take over and use all foreign vessels now idle in U.S. harbors. Thus, with a pen squiggle, the U.S. became the prospective owner of 84 ships, totaling 459,140 tons. Topped by the $80,000,000 Normandie, now lying idle at her dock in the Hudson River, they also included freighters and six tankers-to help replace the 50 oilers recently turned over to British...
Near Buffalo, old Farmer Joseph Peters put down his tools last week, picked up a pen, wrote to his county farm agent in a shaky scrabble...
Boosting its semi-annual profit-sharing payments to 17.5% of each ordinary employe's wages, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. last week told its stockholders their dividends might not be so large if their profit sharing were less generous. Wrote President Craig Royer Sheaffer: "The fact that we can do the largest business, report the largest profits and pay the largest dividends is proof, we believe, that our system, of which the profit-sharing plan has become almost an integral part, is successful-not only from the viewpoint of the employe but the stockholder as well." Last year...
...cadaverous Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, saw the White Sox beat the Tigers, in Chicago, asked, "Do they throw the ball to hit the runner?"; asked of a hot dog, "What's inside it?"; posed poking at Sox Owner Charles Albert Comiskey II's baseball with a fountain pen...