Word: percivall
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All too often, in the first decade after Scott, Editor William Percival Crozier rested on the paper's proud and withering laurels. C.P.S. and the brilliant C. E. Montague, his son-in-law and chief leader writer, had built the Guardian's reputation the hard way. They had...
¶ Arrived, in London: Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, commander of the U.S. Eighth (Atlantic) Fleet and Vice Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, en route to the Mediterranean for a "normal [and timely] inspection of naval forces in Europe."
The Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $9,000,000 to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., to build a $19,000,000 plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival...
The only serene person in Jamaica was Percival Bennett, a convicted murderer awaiting execution in St. Catherine prison. His sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, after the hangman had answered Norman Manley's strike call.
¶ Percival C. "Dobie" Keith, a ruddy-faced, blue-eyed engineer with a lock of brown hair over his eye, who bossed the Kellex Corp., the "industrial cooperative" that designed and operated Oak Ridge.