Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor relations had become so bad at the Niles-Bement-Pond Co. machine-tool plant in Hartford, Conn. that they could only change for the better. The company's president, Harvardman Charles Walton Deeds, 44, was good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter...
...Metropolitan District Commissioner has left the rosewater bather out of his calculations this summer with the announcement that over a dozen beaches are now open on the Charles River from the Boston Basin to Populatic Pond 25 miles upstream. More accessible than Revere or Nantasket, Magazine Beach and Gerry's Landing are designed for early morning dips...
...wasn't a picnic at Walden Pond, though, but a tour of Cambridge and Boston bookstores. The 52 enrollees in a six-week intensive course in shorthand and typewriting begin taking dictation today from Mrs. Harold Quinlan of the Boston Catherine Gibbs secretarial school...
...massive, spinning wheels banged across the top of his car, bent it down a full six inches, left him unhurt. The plane lurched on, shearing off light poles, slammed back to earth, slid with a crash of metal, and stopped beside a stagnant pond. Then it burst into flames...
Rose Without Thorns. "The average family consists of Pop and Mom, Grandma, son and daughter of college age, and Junior, who looks best asleep. Junior is a great one for saying his prayers. He also says Go jump in a pond; G'wan, kiss the guy; Mom, why doesn't Pop come home to us anymore...