Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Reilly Stettinius Sr. made his fortune as a purchasing agent for the House of Morgan during World War I. Ed Stettinius Jr., born in 1900 on Chicago's Gold Coast, grew up to make a reputation, if not a fortune, as an effective seller of other men'...
Professor Sumner H. Slichter of Harvard, a man who approaches his subject with scholarly caution, raised his sights from the present, and tried to see what the U.S. would be like 30 years from now. His report was bottomed on sober statistics and hedged by careful qualifications -but it all...
No Find. The planes made 20 flights the first day, 50 the next, 60 the next. At times they were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent...
In a chartered bus, rumpled Candidate Dulles rode up & down the state, talking conversationally to small groups of people in the small cities and the small towns. Incidentally he argued how important he thought it was for him to go back to the Senate ("I am the most formidable single...
"Galloping Backward." Indignantly, the Democratic Party took up the challenge. With a pearl-grey fedora planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman...