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...SINCLAIR ARMSTRONG Chairman...
...Washington next day, some Cabinet members were less game. Douglas McKay said he had spent the trip trying to estimate what a helicopter costs, concluded that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret...
...experience was a shock - but the shock was not limited to the magazine. In 1936 a scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum. Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar." "What," asked Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. DeVoto's real grievance . . . this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements...
Three days later Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks put the official stamp on the optimistic picture. Said Weeks: "Business was never better. Workers never had it so good. Old man prosperity just keeps rolling along." Weeks cited record employment of more than 65 million workers in October, and prophesied that Christmas sales figures will be the best ever...
...Corporations continued to set earnings records for 1955's first 9 months. American Tobacco reported a net of $38,440,000, up 21% over last year; Eastern Airlines netted $4,748,089, up 16½%; Sinclair Oil earned $18,336,756, a 12% rise above a year ago; American Radiator earned $13,637,000, up 11%; Chrysler netted $70,637,012 v. $3,724,383 last year...