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Since 1942 Johnston has run his four businesses and 1,700 employes mainly by long-distance telephone from Washington or wherever. From his walnut-paneled, richly furnished office in the banklike Chamber of Commerce building a block from the White House, he not only runs the Chamber but also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about...
...outsize gold frames. But there was brisk trading in the Hearst antique paneled rooms (complete with fireplaces and window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
This machine failed to set the walnut industry afire, but attracted the attention of the beet-sugar people. The U.S. Beet Sugar Assn. (western processors) put Professor Bainer in charge of a $100,000 study of beet-growing methods...
Never have I read such a funny story, and I've fished for steelhead (and caught a few) in Oregon and Northern California. I have yet to see anyone using "walnut-sized gobs of goof" for bait and a "fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait." Sounds" too much like cleaning a stopped sewer...
Aircraftmaker Donald Douglas sat down at a long walnut desk in his Santa Monica plant and squiggled his name to a sheaf of papers. Fot the president of Douglas Aircraft, the action was a major milestone...