Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...although Chairman Ralph W. Gallagher told stockholders that profits for the first six months of 1945 might run higher than the $71 million ($2.60 a share) earned in the same period last year.' And General Electric Co.'s President Charles Edward Wilson has repeatedly said that G.E.'s postwar annual gross sales may hit $1 billion, more than three times its prewar average...
...general the views of such laborites as Clinton S. Golden (United Steelworkers), Marion H. Hedges (Electrical Workers), James Carey (C.I.O.), David Kaplan (Teamsters), George Meany (A.F. of L.), Walter Reuther (Automobile Workers), et al., compare with those of such managers as Beardsley Ruml, H. Christian Sonhe, Charles E. Wilson...
Since the day Woollcott scrawled I AM SICK at a radio forum, and was carried out to die of a cerebral hemorrhage, his friends and enemies have tried to explain what manner of man he was. Some may agree with Critic Edmund Wilson's verdict: "In the days of totalitarian states and commercial standardization, he did not hesitate to assert himself as a single, unique human being." Others may ponder Woollcott's raging scream, made when a tactless lecture-chairman referred to his youthful success in female roles: "Look at me, boys and girls; half god, half woman...
...abundant, and Robert went to work as a percussionist in the Opéra-Comique; he rang the bells for Lakmé. Tympani took him through his Conservatory days, and then he went into the army. During his military career he solemnly rataplanned the drums at Versailles as Woodrow Wilson marched by with Clemenceau...
When he celebrated his 120th birthday last week, James Wilson was almost as sound as ever-he still ate anything he wanted, and could read the Bible without his spectacles. His face was almost unwrinkled, his hearing unimpaired and he still had nine teeth. When friends and relatives called, James Wilson stood on the front porch and made a 15-minute speech with sweeping gestures. Nervously, his audience asked him to sit down...