Word: smucker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bankruptcy, the Long Island is still being run by David E. Smucker, the chief operating officer of the road before it went broke and now one of the trustees. He had no comment. This week the Pennsy talked back, saying: "The commission has not . . . unearthed anything new or anything that has been kept secret by the Pennsylvania ... A complete misunderstanding of the facts." The road also noted that the New York Public Service Commission had once said there was "little basis" for the impression that the Pennsy had been draining the Long Island...
...came in for some parboiling. It had received permission from ICC, reported the Bawl Streeters, to charge what its service is worth. This "drastic curtailment" of its revenue had forced the Long Island to enter a new field-supplying daily comic features to 482 newspapers. General Manager David E. Smucker was made to say: "The newspapers will have to pay for the funny features which the Long Island has hitherto supplied them without cost. A ... test in the Middle West revealed that 89% of the readers rated the Long Island the nation's leading comic institution...
Running TIME's reference library keeps 33 librarians and helpers busy full time under tall Smith-alumna Virginia Smucker, who worked for two college libraries before she came to TIME six years ago. Her staff never ceases to wonder at the amazing questions thrown at them day after day-but day after day they take all comers in their stride. And so if you sometimes feel that the background facts in TIME's stories are especially sharp and clear, I think you ought to know that these people (whose names never show up in type) should...