Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew it would be hard to get new officers from outside (Marshall Field's Executive Vice President James L. Palmer had recently turned down Avery's offer of Ward's presidency). So Avery appointed eight new vice presidents by upping No. 2 men. Presumably, Avery thought this would put him in a better position to fight his critics at this week's stockholders' meeting...
Last week, while other clothing stores were pulling in their horns, Robert Hall thought it was just the time to expand some more. It was building seven more stores in six cities, stretching the chain from Manhattan to the Pacific Coast...
...slogging G.I., Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...
Gaiety, high spirits, even joy surge up in Author Churchill at the thought of the hour's magnificence and his place in it-to stand, supreme at last, in an hour of desperate hope, and to find his mood echoed in every city and hamlet of Britain. The prospect of Nazi invasion is inspiring, providing "the chance of striking a blow at the mighty enemy which would resound throughout the world...
There are not many statesmen left to whom such a thought would occur-much less who would have the zest to put it down. But then, there never have been many remotely like Winston Churchill...