Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where will business find the billions of dollars needed for postwar expansion? Will private capital flood forth to finance new ventures and help small business grow? Or must business go hat-in-hand to the Government for money? Last week grey, energetic Herbert Frank Boettler, 53, and rotund, easygoing John Wesley Snyder, 47, both vice presidents of the venerable First National Bank in St. Louis, thought they had some answers to these questions. Their suggestion: that a titanic National Industrial Credit Corp. be formed to pump risk credit into business. Labor, business, banks, insurance companies, railroads and private citizens would...
...Republican victor was Chester O. Carrier, 47, longtime Grayson County attorney. Quiet, slow-spoken and slightly rotund, Carrier had punched cattle in Wyoming, railroaded in Pennsylvania, sold Bibles in the Appalachians. Outside Grayson County, no one knew much about him. But they did know Dan Talbott...
Bill Lamborn, the rotund, one-armed reception clerk who has presided at the Governor's office for most of his 65 years, has seen four men depart and run for the Presidency, and two of them succeed. He goes about his business amiably conscious of his responsibilities, knowing the odds are good that he will be serving another President in his lifetime...
Melitopol. Two weeks ago another force, under rotund and brilliant Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin, increased pressure on Melitopol. Himself a veteran of Stalingrad, Tolbukhin had under him many a Stalingrad veteran-tough and fire-tested. To these men, fate seemed kind, for in Melitopol there were Germans they hated most: units of the Sixth Army, destroyed at Stalingrad and now resurrected with new blood; the Seventeenth Army, responsible for atrocities in the Caucasus...
Last week WPB's rotund, owlish Chief Donald M. Nelson cautiously peered at reconversion, found it not so frightening. Said Nelson: in the first war stage, the job of U.S. industry was to spew out enormous quantities of every kind of weapon. But the U.S. is now in the second war stage, when emphasis has shifted to the production of special weapons and expanded manufacture of peacetime articles is needed to keep the war machine whirling. Example: farm machinery...