Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, John Barriger, also becomes a member of the executive committee. Young (41), baby-faced John Barriger is a railroad fan who learned to wear cufflinks and stiff collars at Kuhn. Loeb. A bright young man to old Wall Streeters, an outsider to New Dealers, he has two pet railroad theories: 1) their maintenance of way badly needs modernization, 2) they sorely need consolidation. Wall Street, he feels, was on the way toward consolidating them until Teddy Roosevelt's trustbusting put a stop to it. Since 1933, ex-Wall Streeter Barriger has been working...
...Girdler. During the campaign his name was used by Candidate Roosevelt as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. At year's end, tough Tom Girdler's emissaries were in Washington and Wall Street, working on a deal to carry out one of the President's pet ideas: an integrated steel company on the West Coast (there is none) to supply booming Pacific shipyards...
...Duke, who had scarcely left her side, seized the opportunity to visit their three pet Cairns, Pookie, Detto and Preezie, quartered temporarily in an animal clinic. Pookie has been with the Duke since his abdication...
Madden's pet hate is Manhattan's cafe-society crowd. "The whole racket," he once wrote, "is nothing but a Show-Off Handicap. It's a good thing it aint a weight for age race or some of them fillies could never lift a foot. Everything, clothes and talk, is loud and cheap and I'm convinced that most of them, if they could get two more people to turn around and look at them, or could get their kisser in another toothpaste ad, a mention by a columnist or their picture in a tab, they...
...This pet project was gigantic-completed, the Seaway would permit ships of 24-foot draft to sail 2,350 miles from Duluth to the Atlantic in nine days. Among other things it called for two great dams (generating 2,200,000 h.p. of electrical energy) to be built on the International Rapids, where the St. Lawrence, slow-moving through most of its mighty length, falls 92 feet in 48 miles. It called for ten miles of canals and three great locks around these rapids, for navigation improvements through Lake St. Francis and the Soulanges Rapids farther downriver, for dams, locks...