Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watson's endorsement caught Johnston in the middle of a speech to oilmen in Fort Worth. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's slick young (46) president stepped off the rostrum, gave the press a statement : "I am not a candidate for any public office. I do not want to live at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue. I would rather live at either end of Main Street of any good American town...
After eight months of noisily stirring the Republican Party into world-consciousness, the Chicago-born Republican Postwar Policy Association last week as noisily closed its doors. Out separate exits walked Publicity Director Leo Casey, to plump for Wendell Willkie for President, and Founder Deneen A. Watson, to stump for Eric A. Johnston for President...
...southern Alaskan ports open the year round, the southern half of The Road may not see much through traffic. Greyhound busses, operated for the Northwest Service Command, now run the thousand miles from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse, average 22 m.p.h. Trucks will continue to supply the big airport at Watson Lake, even with the pipeline punched through from Whitehorse-location of the refinery for oil from Norman Wells (TIME, Oct. 4). But no postwar commercial or tourist development now in sight will justify maintenance of this stretch of The Road...
...officials and oilmen. Finally a contract was signed by which the U.S. Army would help develop the field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
...engineer who has long been risking his neck in Europe's anti-Nazi underground, but is patronized by his wife's rich Washington family when he visits the U.S. In the film his wife is Bette Davis. Muller's highhanded socialite mother-in-law is Lucile Watson. Donald Woods is her son, who is bursting with warm American optimism when he isn't ogling pretty House Guest Geraldine Fitzgerald...