Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does U.S. industry know a way to curb inflation? Last week, General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, who often speaks for a large segment of American industry, laid down a rudimentary sketch of such a plan...
Industry, said Charles Wilson, has now benefited from the technological gains of the war. It is in a position where "it normally could begin to roll back prices." Then why doesn't it? There are several reasons, as G.E.'s president sees it. For one, industry has to know what the Government policy will be on price control. More important, it must know what union labor intends...
Said he: "The Cardinals refer to him, in hushed tones, as Fearless Bert Wilson. He has fixed upon the Cardinals a cold, disapproving eye, and frankly, we are not up to meeting it. We have lowered our own eyes. He has been predicting for weeks that the Cardinals would fold...
This week, WIND's Fearless Bert Wilson was at the mike as usual when Conzelman's Cardinals stalked the crosstown Chicago Bears in a battle royal at Wrigley Field. And as usual, Wilson had made his partisanship clear: "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Bears." The temperature was a chilly 35°, but Conzelman's boys were hot. By beating the Bears, they won the National League western division championship, and silenced-at least for the moment-radio's voice of doom. Score: Cardinals 30, Bears...
...Yorker, which pokes fun at other people's marathon sentences in its "Nonstop Sentence Derby," got a new entry from its own stable: New Yorker Book Critic Edmund Wilson. Reviewing The Times of Melville and Whitman, Wilson began a sentence: "The fluent presentation of all this-." By the time he came to rest on a period, Wilson had used 384 words, 61 lines of type, five sets of quotation marks and 26 commas...