Word: titan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flexing its muscles, the new titan promptly got down to business. The first objective was to get ready for negotiations next March, when contracts expire for most of its 225,000 operators, linemen, technicians and maintenance men. As a whopping independent union-second only to the Railway Brotherhoods-N.F.T.W. felt strong enough to shoot for the works: union shop, dues checkoff, "substantial" wage boosts...
...keenest nose for sniffing out other people's profitable businesses, and its most carefree hand in grabbing them for his huge Hermann Göring Works. Now he had been surpassed. But Göring, like most Germans, had not yet heard of the new economic titan...
...town's atmosphere of rugged independence many a titan of industry had flourished: John D. and William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Stephen Harkness and others of the original Standard Oil Co.; Samuel and William Mather, President-Maker Marcus Alonzo Hanna and a score of other ironmasters and lake shipping tycoons. In its formative era men of such wealth had largely held the reins of power over Cleveland's development. In more recent years, up to depression, the town had been greatly shaped to the mould of the late Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, whose Terminal Tower remains...
Shortly before he died, the late, great Theodore Dreiser finished two novels, the first he had written in 20 years. The Stoic, which will not be published until fall, completes the towering trilogy on U.S. business which was begun with The Financier (1912) and continued in The Titan (1914).* The Bulwark, which he had meditated for some 30 years, is an unpretentious, fitting valedictory...
Died. Theodore Dreiser, 74, pachydermatous, persistent, humorless novelist; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, shortly after completing two novels, his first in over 20 years. A titan rather than a genius, Dreiser in his amoral, sardonic first novel (Sister Carrie, 1900) ended a genteel U.S. literary tradition, cleared the way for a brutal naturalism. His greatest and best-known work, An American Tragedy, a rough-hewn milestone in U.S. letters, emphasized society's responsibility for the acts of its members...