Word: welled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts was convinced that war was "wickedness, useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace." Soon Dr. Manning, Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal Layman George Wharton Pepper, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and others signed a trumpeting manifesto: "Sad is our lot if we have forgotten how to die for a holy cause...
...post of "medical superintendent of all county institutions"; 2) Cook County was promised reinstatement on the A.M.A.'s list sometime around Jan. 1; 3) Surgeon Charles Marshall Davison, son of a former Cook County Hospital surgical chief, warm friend of Dr. Meyer and of A.M.A. propriety as well, was appointed new Cook County director; 4) five medical aides-de-camp were assigned to Dr. Davison. General McCloskey will continue to run only the mechanical departments of the hospital...
...Steel, No. 1 U. S. industry (which weights no less than 18% on the Federal Reserve Board's Index of Production), has been running at 93.9% of capacity, well ahead of consumption, but the temperamentally optimistic Iron Age reported that orders for early 1940 production would account for only 65-80% of capacity. A decline to this level in the steel rate will be enough to drag the production index down from its current 120-plus to something closer to 103, the level the boom started from...
...show that the merger was not born of necessity, both companies released their nine months' earnings. On $27,019,958 sales Melville showed a net profit of $1,453,556 (a shade under its profit for all of 1938). McElwain's net of $641,250 was well on the way toward topping its 1938 profit...
Because Canadian Associated's job was to organize an industry as well as to parcel out orders, it got as its president not an airplane pilot but a seasoned businessman: aristocratic, 60-year-old Paul Fleetford Sise, onetime overseas infantry officer who had worked for Westinghouse before becoming president of Canada's Northern Electric Co. and board member of many another Canadian company...