Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dread Dred Scott decision...
...Scott Fitzgerald. 4. Gertrude Stein...
...Convair stockholders at a ratio not yet determined, but likely to be about seven shares of Convair for six of Lockheed. On its part, AVCO is expected to trade its Convair stock (26%) for Convair's non-aviation interests, including ACF-Brill Motors Co. and its subsidiary, Hall-Scott Motors, and Consolidated's general manufacturing plant at Nashville. In short, Convair's stockholders would get a piece of Lockheed, and AVCO would get out of the planemaking business entirely. It had plenty of other irons in plenty of other fires...
...almost ten years, Novelist Cecil Scott Forester's tarry yarns (Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, etc.) have delighted readers of all ages-even those who usually get a touch of seasickness from historical romances, marine or otherwise. This fifth and (according to the publishers) last of the series is the poorest of the lot. It involves too much dry-land maneuvering and lush love-making on Hornblower's part, too little Royal Navy salt and lore...
...Americans think of it as an overripe opinion sheet, filled with Yalemen, an inflated sense of its infallibility, and an intense desire to diddle at President-making. For every reader who admires the reporting and commentary of a staff that has included men like John Horsey, Theodore White, John Scott and Robert Sherrod, there is at least another who shudders at the forced cliches and elephantine ponderosities of "TIME-style" and gags at the thought of swallowing the Luce line, prepared with infinite cunning in the TIMEdifice in Rockefeller Center...