Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because they will come as regular immigrants at their own expense ($260), Ontario's workers will be free to do what they like after they get to Toronto. But to make sure that as many as possible remain in Ontario, Minister of Planning and Development Dana Porter has been given the task of finding work for them. After an informal survey he reported "many openings in all categories." This week Porter left for England with statistics on jobs to be had for the asking...
ESSAYS OF THREE DECADES (472 pp.)-Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter-Knopf...
Miss O'Hara, outraged, sets the house psychiatrist (Porter Hall) on Kris Kringle, but "Mister Macy" calls off the goons when it develops that Kris has turned one of the most lucrative good-will tricks in commercial history. "Mister Gimbel" hurriedly returns the compliment-he and Mister Macy are even photographed shaking hands-and the whole Manhattan department-store trade glows with the new love-your-neighbor policy...
...hits. At least a dozen (including Without a Song, It's Only a Paper Moon, It Happened in Monterey) are all-time favorites and have brought Billy an "AA" rating with ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)-a distinction he shares with Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, the late George Gershwin and very few others. Billy's songs still bring him about $18,000 a year...
...year-old war veteran named Charles J. F. Porter went to New York's National City Bank, asked for a $312 loan, got it, and was then startled half to death. Bank officials discovered he had borrowed the billionth dollar granted by the institution's personal loan department and celebrated by airily telling him he wouldn't have to pay the money back...