Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure at Work. The committee turned up some solid facts. Without question, bustling Henry Kaiser and his lanky associate Howard Hughes had had very special treatment in wartime Washington. Ex-WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson testified that he had ordered the flying-boat contract canceled. A couple of months later "we awoke to find the job was proceeding-Mr. Nelson had gone to Mr. Jesse Jones...
...jawed Ana is a booming, passionate orator. When shouting to a big audience, her greying, boy-bobbed hair flops about her face. She usually wears quiet, expensively tailored dresses in solid colors. Occasionally, at a party, she comes out in something gayer, but she never wears jewelry...
...Radio Doctor enjoys high standing in his profession; a B.M.A. colleague admits that no physician in the country has done more for preventive medicine than Dr. Hill and his avuncular broadcasts. Dr. Hill himself has a simple explanation for his huge popularity: his talks are based on the solid truism that people are more interested in disease than in health. Says he: "If I want to discuss the circulation, I start by mentioning varicose veins. I know then that I'll have the sympathetic ear of most...
...Solid Consolidation. In Wilmington, Del., a U.S. district court approved the purchase of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. by Columbia Steel Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary. The Department of Justice had argued that the $8,000,000 deal would stop healthy competition in steel fabricating in the west (TIME, March 3), but the court could...
...Plush records the gradual social ascent of the muttony Moorhouses during the Victorian Era: their little intrigues, their innumerable dinners and tea parties, their meandering, witless conversations and their damp love affairs. (Like all good bourgeois, the Moorhouses reject the wild delights of love for the solid comforts of money and status...