Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commerce's Sinclair Weeks, 63, who wants to retire to his New Hampshire farm. One possible successor: Under Secretary for Transportation Louis Rothschild...
...acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack him and his younger brother John, now 28 and an instructor in American civilization at Brandeis...
...works include The Great Rehearsal, a vivid narrative of the Philadelphia convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution, and, at the top of his achievement, the biography of Benjamin Franklin that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Like his nephew, Carl Van Doren had an encyclopedic mind. Wrote Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "He could have sat down with Erasmus; but they would have discussed football or girls or the vintage of their wine as vigorously as the latest stirring discoveries in Finnish philology...
...Sinclair Weeks, 63. Secretary of Commerce, has never completely overcome his conservative New England business views. (A portrait of Herbert Hoover occupies the honor spot in his office.) But in four years he has marched much closer to Eisenhower progressivism, especially in the sphere of international trade. He has mellowed towards lower tariffs, fought for U.S. membership in the antiprotectionist Organization for Trade Cooperation. To Weeks goes major credit for fostering U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs that have combated Communist propaganda and helped raise U.S. exports. He has made such long-needed improvements as a Patent Office speedup, broader...
Some profit pictures were much brighter. Oil-industry earnings were pushed up by heavy demand arising from the Suez crisis. Sinclair's net shot up 13% to a record $91 million in 1956. Socony Mobil estimated earnings at $250 million, up from $208 million in 1955. Shell Oil hit $135.8 million, for an advance of $10.3 million...