Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a fortune supplying munitions to the Allies. After investing $49 million in General Motors, he borrowed $35 million more (1920) to save the company from bankruptcy, soon put G.M. back on its feet. Assailed as a "merchant of death" during the early '30s, Pierre began to plow wartime profits into peacetime research, developed many profitable new chemical products (e.g., Cellophane, nylon, synthetic rubber). Resigning as chairman of the board of directors at 70, he devoted himself to philanthropy and gardening...
...Gaullist hooligans lunged at them, shouting: "Resign! Resign!" Leaflets showered down: "They fired Juin today, will they arrest De Gaulle tomorrow?" A man shook his fist in the Defense Minister's face. Officials helped Laniel elbow his way to a police car. Police had to link arms and plow a path before Pleven could make it to his own car. "This is the first time such a disgraceful and disagreeable scene has ever occurred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," said an official...
...Plow & Shafts. Rab survived, with a typical combination of foresight and luck. In 1941 Churchill offered him the choice of the Ministry of Information or the Board of Education, a wartime backwater. True to family tradition, Butler was deeply interested in education. But, though Hitler was then racing for Moscow, Butler also foresaw that the education job would give him a major hand in shaping Tory postwar policy. He chose education...
...free to all children. Said he: "I do not want our state educational system to become a racing stable, out only to produce overbred classic favorites. We want to produce our racers, but we also want to produce good healthy stock, frightened neither of the plow nor of the shafts...
...concentrator in an outside field who hankers for a passing acquaintance with English literature is in a worse state. Lacking the necessary time, inclination or experience to plow into a course stressing criticism, or concentrating on a few selected authors, this sort of student needs an elementary survey to whet his appetite for the subject...