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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brash, determined Assistant Secretary, who badgered him so mercilessly through those turbulent years, bewildered, bedeviled Harry Woodring recalled last week: "Many men are overambitious. Louis is overambitious. It is sort of like being oversexed...
...mostly once-burned Louis Johnson waited his time, and turned back to the law. With the added luster of Johnson's Government service, Steptoe & Johnson was doing better & better. Its list of clients became a sort of Burke's Peerage of the nation's corporations: Consolidated Vultee, Montgomery Ward, New York Life Insurance. Louis Johnson himself became a director of Consolidated and the $50,000-a-year president of the General Dyestuff Corp., the sales agency for General Aniline & Film, which had been seized as a Nazi asset by the Alien Property Custodian...
...Dream. Behind the walls of Aly's green and white seaside villa, "L'Horizon," Aly and Rita prepared for the day. "I'm so excited," Rita said in one of her rare statements, "I can hardly think. I'm sort of lost in a dream world. When someone asks me a question, I bring myself to and grunt." The word got out that Aly Khan had given her a swell diamond ring, an emerald-cut job. Bar-side reports had it that it was 32 karats-"As big as a belt buckle." (It turned...
...second group of buildings, on the corner of Linnaean Street and Raymond Street, consisting of a three-storey and a combination two-and-three storey building which contains the same sort of apartments will be available about December...
Turboprops are a sort of halfway mark between piston engines and the turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have...