Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lloyd's insurance underwriters set the prime example of "Big Business as usual" last week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...
...been explored extensively by big British and U. S. firms long ago, and though it was only 60 miles from the rich Poza Rico fields, had been rejected as not worth bothering about. Furthermore, it was reported that the lease was signed by Modesto C. Rolland, who is sub-secretary of the Ministry of Economy, who was president and is still thought to be an officer of Mexicana Veracruzana. But the shocker was that Cia. Mexicana Veracruzana was found to be controlled by La Laguna Co., which is owned by Pacific Petroleum Co., which is owned by Kobe Petroleum...
...While Green and Lewis still sulked, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. sub-chieftains worked smoothly together under the Defense Commission's Labor Coordinator: 1. Frances Perkins. 2. Daniel J. Tobin. 3. David Dubinsky. 4. Tom Girdler. 5. Sidney Hillman...
Thus the U. T. "a place of pleasing, simple beauty in the Italian Renaissance period of Florentine art" became a part of Harvard of the Roaring Twenties. That was the day when Freshmen were men and every proctor carried a sub-machine gun. The U. T., as a precautionary measure, employed a bouncer who was pitcher on the Varsity baseball team and tipped the scales at 220. He was assigned to "take care" of the bathtub-gin addicts and his life was a busy...
...Finland Station is also a symbol. Here, in the person of Lenin, socialism first issued from the dank sub-cellars of contemporary society, where like an exterminating virus it had developed in the dark. Here socialism first ceased to be merely a theory and became a political reality. Here it prepared to master a great State, rule 170,000,000 people. But Lenin was wrong about the world revolution. It was not until 20 years later that three variants of socialism-Stalinism, Naziism, Fascism-were to combine under German leadership in a world revolution against democratic, capitalist civilization...