Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his uproarious retirement in California, aging (76) Author Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, under whose department CAB operates, advised the President to reverse the CAB decision, drop Northwest and give the route exclusively to Pan American. Pan American has lower Government subsidies than Northwest, and in the past two years carried more passengers to Hawaii -18,192 to 11,671 for Northwest. The President, who is interested in saving money on airline subsidies, decided to reverse CAB and signed a letter giving the route to Pan American alone...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB will soon have its 27th member: Sinclair Oil Corp., with an estimated 1954 gross income of more than $1 billion and profits of about $74 million, some $6,000,000 better than 1953, and equal to $6 per share...
When Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks set up the Office of Strategic Information two months ago, he stirred up an unexpected storm. The announced purpose of OSI was to furnish "guidance" to newsmen, thus keep "unclassified strategic data" from reaching the Russians. But many U.S. publishers rightly saw the Commerce Department's OSI as a means of censoring the U.S. press...
Battered But Unbowed. The hero of the great Hemingway legend was still not sufficiently recovered from his accident to travel to Stockholm for his latest, biggest honor (hitherto awarded only to five other American-born writers: Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck, T. S. Eliot and William Faulkner). Furthermore, the first announcement of the Nobel award and the bustle of publicity that followed had thrown Hemingway off his writing pace. He took to his boat in hopes of getting back to work on his new novel about Africa. "I was going real good, better than for a long...