Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest vote of confidence came from U.S. businessmen themselves. In what he called "the best economic news of the year," Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks announced that U.S. business will spend a record $35 billion to expand plants and production in 1956, or 22% more than igss's previous high of $28.7 billion...
...Largest cargo ship under any flag: D. K. Ludwig's Sinclair Petrolore (55,000 deadweight tons), with a speed of 15 knots. She flies the Liberian flag...
...editor of surpassing skill, a journalist of scintillating brilliance, a rare humorist and a savage critic. For years he was the brightest star on the Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart...
...election day, when the floor of the Commodore Hotel headquarters was littered with bitten fingernails, Sherman and Rachel Adams slipped quietly away and went sightseeing at the Bronx Zoo. That night Sinclair Weeks, later to become Commerce Secretary, gallantly remarked on Rachel's fresh outdoor complexion. "We've been to the zoo to see all the animals," she explained. "Ah," said Weeks, "quite a change from the campaign." Replied Rachel: "Not so much...
...emptying hotel ballroom, and began to argue angrily. Sligh said that the merged union might "pull strings behind the scenes and direct the destinies of the nation" through a "ghost government." Indignantly Meany shot back: "No chance of that. I thought it was [Treasury Secretary George] Humphrey, [Commerce Secretary Sinclair] Weeks and [Defense Secretary Charles] Wilson who were doing that. If the N.A.M. philosophy is to disfranchise unions, then there is no answer but to start a labor party." The closed shop, the union boss snapped, "involves no coercion. It is simply an exercise of our right not to work...