Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently did not forget to touch off the charges. Greece's Metaxas Line-pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches-was ironically strongest opposite neutral Bulgaria; nevertheless it offered barriers. The first line ran from Fiorina to the sea. The Greeks furthermore diverted streams on to roads, used every hillock and rock for sniping. Italian Alpinists are among the best mountain troops in Europe; but the Greek evzones-picturesque, wiry men in white jackets and kilts, slippers with turned-up toes and pompons, and any old sort of rifle-are tough and brave...
Rehearsals are being held every day in Phillips Brooks House under the direction of Roger Sheppard ocC. and A. George Rock '41. A tea will be held Wednesday afternoon by the Club in Lowell House for Flora Robson who is opening in Boston Monday in "Ladies in Retirement...
...Camped near the mouth of many an industrial bottleneck is Worthington Pump & Machinery. Making steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...
...spree. Hiring one of the largest U. S. investment bankers, hard-working First Boston Corp., he pared the usual two or more point commission to if points, a spread nearly as small as that secured by investor-popular American Telephone & Telegraph securities. He kept his own legal fees at rock bottom, watched those of his underwriters. To cut printing bills, he ordered only 47,500 copies of the 70-page prospectus, an almost skimpy number for selling 108,000 $1,000 bonds. It is rumored he even asked staid, profit-conscious American Bank Note Co. to run off his bonds...
...Roger Sheppard ocC, and Richard W. Greenebaum '42, were retained as President and Treasurer respectively, while the new elections were as follows: A. George Rock '41, Vice-president; George Clay '43, Secretary; William G. Manson '41, Play-reader Librarian; Engene Rondy '42, House Manager; John Rand '43, Program Manager; Paul Southwick '43, Publicity Manager; John A. Holabird, Jr. '42, Art Director; Robert Nelley '43, Technician; Richard B. Chase '43, Electrician; and Farl Montgomery '43, Promotion Manager...