Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans asked, Colorado's Eugene Millikin insisted, was to restrain those who thought the U.S. should be "the world's shmoo and who are always shaking themselves to pieces lest other countries have a bad opinion of us." The peril-point provision would simply allow Congress "to judge the extent to which our domestic producers have become the pawn of diplomacy...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...
Lisa Fonssagrives was, in fact, an artfully posed, painstakingly lighted, lavishly printed image which bore about as much resemblance to an ordinary woman as Plato's "forms" to their imperfect earthly copies. Recently, Lisa Fonssagrives asked a photographer friend what he thought of her. "Lisa," he said, "you are just an illusion...
Greetings from the Stork. When war broke out, Lisa and Fernand came to the U.S. Soon after her first pictures appeared in U.S. magazines, smitten strangers sent her presents, including a bottle of champagne from Stork Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley, whom she has never met. She recalls, "I thought: what a strange country this is. Maybe I'd better go home now." Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could...
...Greenfield thought he could do more-as he had with a dozen other projects. As a real-estate salesman, Russian-born Al Greenfield was selling $60 million worth of property a year by the time he was 26. Later he built Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel, soon had a finger in most local financial pies. He was worth $15 million and dominated Philadelphia's huge Bankers Trust Co. when the 1930 crash wiped...