Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Home Secretary, at Swansea. At Durham, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon reminded that the Empire's financial strength is "an important weapon of defense" and at Leeds, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald keynoted that Britain's "will to victory . . . cannot be equaled." Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood opened a new aircraft works at Reading and announced that Britain's aircraft production had doubled during 1938, would probably treble this year. In an article, Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, estimated that Britain will launch a warship a week during...
...Mickey Mouse, not the foolish pigs, not Donald Duck in a snit, not the awkward Goof nor Horace the hopeless horse, not Dopey, no wide-eyed, tender creature of the field or wood was chosen. The choice: a scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wherein two cadaverous vultures-black, grey, just a tip of vermilion on their cruel beaks-watch for the witch's death through sleet and gloom. Taken from their delicate context, the ominous birds seemed to be looking down on Europe...
...months Chicago's LaSalle Street has buzzed with rumors that stormy, exuberant General Robert Elkington Wood was about to resign as president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and campaign for public office, possibly the Presidency of the U. S. Sears has a rule that executives must retire at 60; the rambunctious General is 59 and no man to twiddle his thumbs...
Last week, not General Wood, but wan, diffident Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald resigned. At 47 he retired to his philanthropies and etchings. Sears' directors promptly upped General Wood to the chairmanship, a post to which the retirement rule does not apply...
Having marched Sears stores into 45 States and raised annual net sales from $319,000,000 to $537,000,000 in eleven years, General Wood is not likely to confine his generalship to board meetings. To succeed him the directors picked a man who can get along with the General (who chews up cigarets when he is mad). New President Thomas Joseph Carney is a company man, in 37 years has served under every Sears president. Born in 1886, same year as the company, he went to work at 16 as a shipping clerk. Later he managed the Philadelphia store...