Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farewell to Beasts. "Company allegiance is a fact," writes Father Purcell. In a sample of 202 workers, 187, or 92%, showed more or less "favorable" attitudes toward Swift & Co., a great change since Upton Sinclair wrote in sorrow and anger (in The Jungle, 1906) about the company-hating "human beasts" in the Pack-ingtown jungle. Of the rest, 14 were neutral; only one man's attitude was downright "unfavorable...
Clearly not. On that point the Cabinet turned thumbs down on the butter deal. Emerging from the meeting, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said, "I shall not approve any application ... to buy butter at considerably lower prices than those paid by the American housewife and then send that butter into Russia...
COMMERCE Secretary Sinclair Weeks needs two new cars, but he has vowed not to buy them until a salesman calls on him and "sells...
There's lots to do if your book isn't interesting. They have the Farnsworth room, which is an exact replica of a 19th century library, with all the old books and everything. But they have some Sinclair Lewis novels if you want to read the up-to-date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment...
...SINCLAIR OIL, along with Carter Oil and Socony-Vacuum, has just brought in the first well in what may be a rich new oilfield in the Williston Basin 100 miles northwest of Bismarck...