Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what his farmer father had wanted him to be. He was also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years later, aged 40, he organized the Ford Motor Co., with eleven stockholders...
...business of public education to secure adherence to any particular religious system. . . . But we believe it is the business of public education to impel the young toward a vigorous, decisive personal reaction to the challenge of religion. . . . A first step is to break through the wall of ignorance about religion and to increase the number of contacts with...
...tour ended up in Pravda's paneled, carpeted conference room, a Hollywood version of a Wall Street office. There, over glasses of tea, the U.S. visitors got down to what was on their minds. About those complaints, now - do Pravda's readers ever criticize the paper for its attacks on the Western powers? Replied Editor Pospelov: "Yes - they say we should make them stronger." Who appoints the paper's editors? "The Communist Central Committee." What happens when the Communist Party disapproves of a Pravda article? Replied ace Commentator Boris Izakov: "Nothing. That does not happen very often...
Nevertheless, many durable-goods makers could probably afford to cut prices if first-quarter earnings were as high as Wall Streeters guessed. But consumers would be benefited most by-and should get-the biggest cuts in food and textiles, where the profits had been greatest...
Like railroads and coal mining, the telephone industry is so essential to the nation's economy that the prospect of a lengthy strike has induced serious gastric disturbances in both Washington and Wall Street. Congressional searching for the legislative abracadabra that will keep telephone workers on the job is proceeding with the same infuriated righteousness that quashed last year's railroad strike. The pressure that the government exerted on the Railroad Brotherhoods was justified as a temporary measure. But the time for temporary measures has passed...