Word: topflighters
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Obviously G.M. was in the banking business for a good long stay; fortunately it had called in a topflight banker to nurse the depression baby...
...tool for arbitration will be the 20-man board which is being set up to implement the charter. On it are such topflight businessmen as Henry J. Kaiser, Studebaker's and C.E.D.'s Paul Hoffman, and such labor leaders as P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O.-U.A.W.'s President R. J. Thomas, and A.F. of L. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany...
...artillery had been battle-proved as topflight; its grenades were at least as good as the Germans', probably better; its rolling stock, from jeeps to tank carriers, was better than any other army could hope to have. On total score, the U.S. Army was far out in front in quantity, quality and variety of weapons...
When the U.S. Army sent six topflight industrialists on a tour of the western front recently, what it hoped to get to spur lagging U.S. production was a series of urgent eyewitness accounts of U.S. soldiers' performances and needs in the field. What it got from one of the eyewitnesses last week was quite another thing...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...