Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Little's days are constantly occupied with personal meetings and telephone conversations, he rarely has enough time to attend to his paper work. But with persistent optimism he assures his secretary that the six-inch pile of letters on his desk each morning will be answered by dinner time. When 5 o'clock rolls around and the pile is no smaller than it was when he walked in that morning, he smiles and says, "Well, you know, we've just got to get that stuff out of the way tomorrow...
McGraw, disgusted that his partners "couldn't see over a pile of manure," split with them and took the streetcar magazine with him. Later, he met John Hill, onetime locomotive engineer who owned five trade papers (American Machinist, Power, Engineering News, Coal Age, Engineering and Mining Journal). Both McGraw and Hill had also started publishing books; in 1909 they formed a joint book-publishing firm. Eight years later, after Hill died, his estate sold out his magazines and book interests to McGraw...
Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...
...home. They were featured performers, but, even on the bandstand, they dressed in peasanty blouses run up by their economical grandmother Guilfoyle. They were on the road most of the time, playing dance halls, Italian socials, college proms, barn dances in tobacco warehouses until 2 a.m. Afterward they would pile into their bus and ride through the night to the next stop. The girls were chaperoned by their Uncle George Guilfoyle. He would hold the second seat in the bus for the girls (Bandleader Pastor would have the front one), and Uncle George would guard protectively from the third...
...tenth anniversary of the first chain reaction in an atomic pile was celebrated...