Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent a message to Congress, urging immediate development of his old pet, the St. Lawrence seaway and power project, in spite of the fact that it would now have to compete for labor and materials with defense industries. Said he: "The enemies of democracy are developing hydro-electric resource and every waterway from Norway to the Dardanelles. Are we to allow this continent to be outmatched? . . . Your action on this project will either make available or withhold 2,200,000 horsepower of low-cost electric power for the joint defense of North America...
Nelson Rockefeller's pet project, the elimination of Nazi agents from U.S. business concerns, backfired with annoying results. By last week several hundred agents had been fired by their employers. Many of them had promptly hopped off to the U.S.. sold their services to their former employers' competitors, returned to Latin America to steal business for their new firms...
This week not even U.S. Lines knew what the Navy would pay for their pet ship. But one thing they did know: in ships, bigness does not beget profits...
When the seal was caught this year and sold to the aquarium Captain Knowles immediately went to see it and recognized it as his erstwhile pet by a broken left flipper. Oscar, who would not let anyone approach him, recognized the captain, followed him about and responded to his calls...
Naturally Captain Knowles hopes to keep his pet out of the aquarium and I hope he wins the fight...