Word: shea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start that fire?" asked Dr. John P. Shea of a number of mountaineers. Among the answers...
...Shea did not believe them. A U. S. Forest Service official, he had been puzzled by large numbers of fires destroying timber from Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
Next happy-family gesture came from North American Co., utility holding company. Wrote North American President Edward L. Shea to Defensemen Dunn and Olds: "The North American Co. and its operating companies expect to meet with their own resources all of the obligations arising out of any national defense problems. . . . This will require as never before the use of all resources of capital and man power. . . . We will use them fully." Utilitarian Shea laid on the line a $29,000,000 addition to a $61,000,000 construction program announced in January. The new items: 60,000 kilowatts for Cleveland...
Author, president and top dog of Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...
...life of Columbus. Young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passing through, noted that Irving was at his desk every morning at six; that in society he "said very pleasant agreeable things in a husky, weak, peculiar voice." He liked everybody, but he especially liked a handsome, Spanish Mrs. O'Shea, a pretty French girl named Antoinette Bolviller. To the latter, a niece of the Russian Minister, Irving wrote the best letters of his life. All that is known of her history is that 30 years later she was unmarried, living in Rome, spending her days in nun's dress copying...