Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...
...election night in 1916, Charles Evans Hughes went to bed thinking that he had been elected President of the U.S. He woke to find that he was wrong; victory vanished as the returns came in from California. He accepted his defeat philosophically. He was a judicial man who, someone said, looked "like a Victorian child's image of Almighty God." And history had a judicial role cut out for him. He lived out a public career as a tidier-up of disorder, an impeccable caretaker of constitutionality...
Only then did the fun begin. An excited crowd gathered before the house and grew by the minute. Half an hour after the polls closed, some of Duplessis' jubilant admirers barged in, woke him, told him that his personal election had been conceded. Said Duplessis: "What did you expect? The trouble with you is that you lack faith...
This year, for the first time in their history, Canadians will enjoy a show something like the political performance that the U.S. puts on every four years. Last week Canada woke to some unexpected facts: that all three major Canadian parties will soon hold national conventions, that the two big parties will choose new leaders, and that some months hence they will fight it out in a national election. Nothing like it has happened before in Canada...
...since 1946), he has found time to double in brass as secretary (and traveling salesman) for the New England Council. He likes to preach the greatness of New England industry, and pooh-poohs statistics (which sometimes tell a different tale). At the dingy, church-quiet Federal Reserve Bank he woke things up by providing piped-in music...