Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose tiptoe trail zigzagged from Vienna to New York, through embassies and drawing rooms. "One of the most active, extensive and vicious groups we have ever had to deal with," Mr. Hoover declared...
...have read with quite some amusement the criticism of one F. N. Gladish (guide, trail cook, horse wrangler) from Téte Jaune, B.C., which appeared as one of your published letters in TIME, June...
...Chemical Corp. originally sponsored by I. G. Farbenindustrie, but since 1939 called General Aniline & Film (textiles, dyes, Agfa Ansco camera equipment). SEC revealed that the original U.S. directors of the firm, including Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, had no idea who controlled it either. The trail ended in Switzerland, where a number of long-named banking firms were holders "of record," but not "beneficially," of over 75% of the company's voting stock, for principals whom they refused to name...
Before the Eastern Presidents' Conference started after such rules last week, Martin Withington Clement, Pennsylvania R.R. boss, was on the trail. Two years ago he won repeal of a Pennsylvania law which put an extra brakeman on every passenger train of more than five cars, every freight over 50 cars. Clement knows the chances of avoiding at least a small pay raise this year are slim. But he also knows a good shakedown of the rules might save the roads enough to pay whatever increase is granted...
With his fractured ankle now well on the mend, he stumped about, a dour Scottish captain dogging his trail. But London reports had him mum and sullen, complaining at being given ordinary food, demanding "extras" for which he said he had money to pay, piqued because no Cabinet ministers had yet visited...