Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, McCone became president and director of the California Shipbuilding Corp., and wearing two hats, launched himself into a 15-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week schedule. At Calship, Engineer McCone found ways to set production goals higher than anyone thought possible, saw to it that they were met. Result: Calship produced 467 ships worth a billion dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built up a onetime iron works into the Joshua Hendy Corp., which operates a fleet of 40 to 50 tankers and cargo ships. To avoid conflict of interest...
...thereabouts-Pre-dinner swim or wash. Plan dinner. (Meals are quite elaborate and are carefully thought...
...entering into the parliamentary game. He answered questions skillfully. When one right-wing speaker compared him to Robespierre, who started the Terror and in the end died by it, De Gaulle (according to Figaro Littéeraire) turned to Minister of State Guy Mollet and murmured, "Curious. I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself...
...were 100% homosexual;
all the rest were "mixed" cases with varying degrees of
heterosexuality. While half definitely preferred the company of other
males, 18 preferred that of women (13 were indifferent). Several would
have been willing to marry for the sake of having children, but could
not bear the thought of heterosexual intercourse.
...papers are pinching pennies. Far from retrenching, the Atlanta Newspapers Inc.'s Journal and Constitution are spending more money. Explained Journal-Constitution Executive Editor Gene Patterson: "It was either retrench or increase expenditures and try for a better product that will sell. We thought the latter would be more rewarding...