Word: wilsons
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Another is Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
Hard to Believe. Irma's characterizations are cut to the measure of the cast. Every one of the actors looks and acts his part in & out of the script. Most astonishing of all is Irma herself, Cinemactress Marie Wilson, who has been playing the role of a dumb blonde for so long that she now lives the part. Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine. "She is so much like Irma," says Sy, "that I have to rewrite the things she says to make them believable...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson was inclined to feel the same way. There was no economic mandate, said he, for a bust to follow the current boom. "The reasons which underlie our inflation seem to have been more solid than we anticipated. ... It is difficult not to reach the conclusion, in the face of continued buying at high prices, that these prices are more strongly based, and the whole price structure less vulnerable, than was the case...
Adams: le, Wheelright; lt, Rockwell; lg, Coolidge, Weller; c, Wilson; rg, Rogers; rt, Richardson; re, Livermore; qb, Coburn; lhb, Evans, Dunn; rhb, Evans, Spaulding; fb, Heath...
Replacing Cripps as head of the Board of Trade will be Harold Wilson, 31. As Secretary for Overseas Trade, Wilson worked directly under Cripps. In his new job, he will in effect continue to work under Cripps, instead of becoming the autonomous head of a separate department...