Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even achieved something approaching humor. Once, when the going got dreary, Bevin told his colleagues: "I feel like an orphan at the table. I am the only one here who wasn't brought up as a lawyer." When the lawyers tried to set an hour for the start of the secret meetings, Vishinsky said: "If we meet tomorrow at 3, I think I will have had enough sleep...
Cardinal Spark. As usual, 28-year-old Stanley Frank Musial, three times National League batting champion, was expected to spark the Cardinal attack. When he got off to a slow start the club sagged into seventh place. But last week, the indispensable Cardinal hit his stride and began to earn his $50,000 a year...
...later, before the other banks could gather their wits, A.P. was open for business in another part of town. In the panic of 1907, the Bank of Italy rode through safely, thanks to Giannini's cautious hoarding of gold. As a horde of settlers poured into California to start ranches, orange groves and vineyards, the Bank of Italy lent them the cash they needed and spread its branches throughout the state. To consolidate his empire and run his real estate and insurance interests, A.P. founded Transamerica Corp...
...collar wouldn't wrinkle. To Seymour J. Phillips, 46, president of Phillips-Jones Corp., this was a historic occasion, as historic as the one more than 20 years ago when the company brought out its famed Van Heusen collar* and revolutionized the shirt industry. Phillips hoped to start another revolution with his no-wrinkle collar. He had worked the trick by weaving the several plies of cloth used for an ordinary collar into a single thickness...
...start of Congressional investigation of the Atomic Energy Commision Lilienthal wrote the society that he might not be able to free himself from his Washington work. This week he telegraphed the society confirming his earlier fears...