Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice filed a complaint against Inco, its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, International Nickel Co. Inc., and three U.S. officers of both companies, President Robert C. Stanley, Executive Vice President John F. Thompson, Vice President Paul D. Merica. The charges: 1) conspiracy to prevent competition in the nickel industry, 2) fixing prices, 3) making cartel agreements with I. G. Farbenindustrie, A. G. and two French companies to prevent competition and peg prices in the world market. Said Justice: Inco had so increased its nickel shipments to Farben in 1937 that Germany...
...After dinner, feeling sick and savage, started off for a solitary ramble. Traveling eastward, found a beautiful road through the woods . . . was gone all the p.m. Conceived a great work to immortalize me to all posterity . . . 'Confessions of an Egotist.' . . . Went off to walk with Freshman Thompson in the p.m. Visited a cider-mill [and] got some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded...
...Killers. D block is Alcatraz' "solitary." There Coy freed Joseph Cretzer; bank robber and murderer; Marvin Hubbard, kidnaper; Sam Shockley, Oklahoma badman; Miran Thompson, murderer; 18-year-old "baby" Clarence Carnes. They pounced on Guard William Miller, beat him, took his keys. They threw other guards in a cell. Cretzer, armed with Burch's .45, stood outside yelling and firing at the guards through the bars. He wounded several, killed Miller...
Throughout the country more & more schools are applying what paint ads flossily call "the principles of color dynamics." According to one paint publicist, Joseph C. Thompson of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., "colored surfaces [in] flat, satin, or eggshell finishes . . . medium to light in value [will eliminate the] excessive brightness of the white, and the eye-strain and feeling of monotony induced by too dark colors...
...Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...