Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engaging in open and legal meetings. There will be no apparatus of inquiry and "closer watch." The harm done by the effort necessary to discover even a single clan-destine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit. To go beyond that by searching for "reasonable grounds" concerning "loyalty," would still more disrupt Harvard or any free university...
...good woman's power to encourage is well nigh unlimited"). Once he found the right partner, he gave him a share of any profits and trusted him completely. By 1924 he was calling himself "the man with a thousand partners." Penney's 50,000 "associates" (employees) still share in the profits after a year's service...
...Although still in the development stage and costly to operate, the new locomotive puts out twice as much horsepower as a diesel of comparable size. G.E. and Alco hope to develop a gas turbine-electric unit that can run economically on coal, and will need overhauling only after 15,000 hours of operation (three times as long as present-day diesels). G.E. and Alco think that someday the gas turbine-electric engine may replace the diesel...
Last week the White House reversed CAB. At the order of the President, CAB awarded a web of overseas routes to Resort Airlines. (CAB still has to pass on a request for domestic routes.) They fan out from New York, Chicago and six other cities to foreign vacation spots. Thus, Resort became the first U.S. carrier certified to handle packaged tours only...
...Betty Grable, usually near the top, was far down on the list with $208,000-although she is still the best paid woman...