Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a splendid combination. Jacobs Executive Young proceeded to persuade Lustron Vice President Young that Lustron's houses needed Jacobs' washing machines. As a special convincer, Jacobs offered Young a $15 commission for every machine he sold to Lustron. But that scheme never worked out. Lustron sank last year with $37 million of RFC bullion aboard; Jacobs quit the washing-machine business...
...more with his $4,150 annual wage than any fireman in history. Records showed that he had helped finance a Flushing bar & grill for his brother-in-law. There were definite indications that he had been involved in promoting a housing project, a six-day bicycle race, and a scheme to sell 40,000 Christmas trees to firemen and their relatives...
Reiterating its plan for calling up age groups for service and extending the draft to 18-year-olds, the committee claimed that this scheme would provide a continual flow of manpower as well as a trained reserve...
...other cabinet changes went unfulfilled. Old Battler Ernie Bevin had become too ill to carry on the burden of Britain's foreign affairs. And a barrage of criticism was hitting War Secretary John Strachey, who, as Minister of Food, had made a complete failure of the African groundnuts scheme, which was designed to get cooking fat for austerity Britain. Even the Labor government had to admit last week that the scheme had failed, at a dead loss to the British taxpayer of $109 million. There was no reason to believe that Strachey would be any better at getting guns...
...somehow tied all her plot strings together and worked out a pro-virtue ending. Old England, the book hints, will continue to bounce along. Unfortunately, Quorum itself has little bounce. Except for the old-school labor leader, Author Bentley's characters are inert symbols of her social scheme, with neither individuality nor idiosyncrasy. Transparently plotted and written in muttony English, Quorum is the sort of novel that may give more kick to a rummaging social historian of the future than to today's American...