Word: sayings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THANKS FOR A FAIR AND OBJECTIVE VIEW OF LOS ANGELES [TIME, JULY 4]. THOSE THINGS YOU FOUND WRONG ARE THE SUBJECT OF STUDIES AND PLANS BY THOUSANDS OF OUR CITIZENS ACTING THROUGH THIS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU BACK FOR A COMPARATIVE REPORT, SAY ABOUT...
TIME . . . really hit the nail square on the head in its description of Mayor Fletcher Bowron. He is all you say he is, and not much more...
After reading the article on Carl Strandlund and the Lustron home [TIME, July 4], I would say that Preston Tucker hadn't used his head in financing his auto company. Tucker apparently squandered about $28 million belonging to various private individuals and he has the Government and half the newspapers and magazines in the country on his neck. Carl Strandlund "has spent" $32.5 million in a period of about two years, apparently needs $3,000,000 more, is all set to spend another $1,000,000 a month...
...Wilson [president of General Motors] in 1948 got $516,300 in salary and bonus. He made $258 an hour. General Motors will give him $25,000 a year when he is too old to work but too young to die ... If you make $1.65 an hour they say you don't need it... We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pensions to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to pay them to people who do need them-the guys in the shop...
...president, Terris Moore had just met the faculty, accepted a world's record brown bearskin for the university museum and got settled for the summer in the girls' infirmary while a house was being built for him. A week before, Alaskans had come from miles around to say goodbye to the university's founder and first president, leathery Charles E. Bunnell (TIME...