Word: silver
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Among the highest and rarest medals for heroism in the nation's gift are the Distinguished Service Cross (for "extraordinary heroism . . . against an armed enemy") and the Silver Star (for "gallantry in action"). But by last week the Cross and the Star were beginning to seem neither so high nor so rare...
...Born Yesterday" has been born in celluloid, with a silver spoon in its mouth. First of all, it's a faithful version of Garson Kanin's play, almost line for line. It has an excellent cast, one which for a change, seems to understand words. And it has Judy Holiday, who played Billie Dawn for years on Broadway. Miss Holliday alone would be enough...
...longtime Chief Executive Lewis H. Brown). Says Rassweiler: "We intend to let the military know what Johns-Manville can make with the tools it has, instead of waiting for them to come to us with orders that we cannot fill." ¶ MALTBYSTEVENS, 55, president of International Silver Co., succeeding his brother, Evarts C. Stevens, 65, who was named chairman...
...Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Silver, vice president of the American Woolen Co.; and the Most Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, Coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio...
Last week, after solemn thought, the New York City Board of Education placed an order for 50,000 pounds of nickel-silver alloy. The purpose: to provide every schoolchild in the city with a G.I.-type identification tag bearing name, address, and (if arrangements for large-scale typing can be made) blood-type. The board hoped to have the tags ready by spring...