Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems below par today, but For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) was one of his best, and in The Old Man and the Sea he is better than he ever was, more mature and less mannered. Unlike most American writers, who seemed inexplicably to wither after their triumphs (e.g., Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Her-esheimer, Thomas Wolfe), Ernest Hemingway has continued to grow...
...SINCLAIR OIL, which wants to increase its oil and gas reserves, is working on a multimillion-dollar deal to buy American Republics Corp. from Torkild ("Cap") Richer, who helped negotiate the Iranian oil settlement (TIME, Feb. 1). Dickering price for American, which has rich reserves in Southwestern and Gulf states: $72 a share (1,500,000 shares outstanding), $4 more than the current market price...
ADMINISTRATION BATTLE between the Labor and Commerce Departments is building up over Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks's proposal to put labor unions under the antitrust laws. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who is opposed, has come out on top, so far, in a running battle over other issues, e.g., knocking down a Commerce proposal to divert copper from the strategic stockpile to the strike-bound copper industry (on the ground that it was strike-breaking...
Reminiscing about a meeting with Sinclair Lewis in London in 1922, Biographer Charles Breasted, writing in the Saturday Review, recalled asking the late author whether Main Street, the literary rage of that day, was autobiographical. Lewis'candid admission: it was. Breasted wanted to know whether the novel's heroine, Carol Kennicott, was a self-portrait. Startled at one of the few correct guesses about Carol's identity, Lewis replied with what could well have served as his own gloomy epitaph: "Yes, Carol...
...program designed to give a "nudge" to slow sections of the economy, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks last week announced a speedup in Government spending for military procurement, highway and airport construction and shipbuilding. A two-year, $385 million program of shipbuilding, said Weeks, will be the biggest peacetime project of its kind in history. In addition, the Maritime Board announced a $65.8 million deal with American President Lines,* to include construction of two new passenger-freighter vessels, purchase of four Mariner ships from the Maritime Administration and of two luxury liners (the President Cleveland and President Wilson) now operated...