Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guide is a modest moneymaker, but the Youngs look forward to the day when the paper will no longer be needed. Says T. W., who is president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association: "If the daily newspapers . . . adequately reported [Negro news] and crusaded against all injustices . . . they would take away the . . . reason why Negro newspapers exist...
...sons. Editor in chief is "P.B. Jr.," 42, who was a correspondent during World War II, later covered the Bikini atomic tests and the United Nations conference at San Francisco (for which he won the Guide's first'Willkie award). President and business manager is brother Thomas W. ("T. W."), 40. The newspaper's philosophy on race relations is still old P.B.'s own: "I am definitely opposed to the frontal attack. I believe in negotiation, arbitration, conciliation and persuasion. If that does not work, then I resort to the courts...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...Administration still talked loudly about fighting inflation, but last week it quietly took a short step to combat deflation. Because retail sales and installment credit have been dropping, the Federal Reserve Board eased up on Regulation W, which restricts installment buying...
...know-how to help his inefficient monopoly, landed a bigger fish. He signed a contract with a new company, the Mexican American Independent Co., giving it a twelve-year concession to drill wells along Mexico's tidelands near Yucatan and elsewhere. The new company was formed when Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and good friend of President Truman, joined up with Ralph K. Davies. of the American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1, 1947) and Samuel B. Mosher of California's Signal Oil & Gas Co. The new Pauley company would, get 50% of all production until its drilling...