Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room where Financier Young got three of his friends elected to important railroad jobs: lawyer-trained Carl Elbridge Newton, 44, as president of powerful and profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...
Coatesville, Pa. is a quiet little town of narrow streets, dozens of musty, old-fashioned saloons and only one real claim to fame: Lukens Steel Co., a small, smart, fast-growing outfit which is now one of the largest U.S. makers of armor plate. Last week Lukens announced it had quadrupled plate output in the year ended Oct. 10, turned out enough armor for a dozen warships (battleships, cruisers, carriers) and hundreds of army tanks to boot...
Even so, cautious, farsighted Robert Wolcott is not a happy man-he knows that Lukens' plate sales are 100% munitions, will nose-dive at war's end. The white hope: the fabricating divisions, which now account for almost 40% of total sales, are big enough to make Lukens a husky manufacturer of peacetime products...
...into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...
...Websters' junket was a series of parties. In London they dined with young Queen Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who insisted on giving Mrs. Webster a prize strawberry "from his own plate." Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined." The Queen gave them "a superb dinner" served on gold & silver plates. Mrs. Webster could not resist washing her hands in the ladies' room "to show that I knew the use of the scented water and napkins...