Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kendall left Cambridge for good at the end of his second year and went to work for the Coca Cola Company. As a Sophomore, he led Coach Hal Ulen's Crimson mormen high among the ranks of the nation's great tank squads by personally annexing National Intercollegiate titles in the 220 and 440 yard events...
Last month The Iron Age reported from Detroit that Stinson Aircraft, having just taken $1,853,451 of Army business, was planning to expand its Wayne (Mich.) plant. Continental Motors Corp., at work (with RFC and new private money) on plane engines, was erecting two buildings at Muskegon (Mich.). A few weeks ago, Pratt & Whitney gave a green light to famed Detroit Architect Albert Kahn, who had blueprints ready on a Wednesday, received bids Thursday on 1,800 tons of structural steel for a plant in Detroit...
...days as vendors of tear gas and machine guns to corporations involved in labor difficulties. Senator Nye's Munitions Committee and Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul in Ecuador, "Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again and made arrangements to demonstrate. . . ." From a Los Angeles salesman, "I think someone should get out a restraining order on the President of the United States to prevent him from stopping all of these strikes...
...Hollywood, Christopher Isherwood, Auden's old friend and collaborator, was at work last week on a scenario for Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Richard Aldington, who came to his conclusions about war ten years ago (Death of a Hero), left the Riviera last February to settle in the U. S., summered in Peace Dale, R. I., and last week was in Manhattan...
Most yeomanly English novelist since Galsworthy, Sir Hugh Walpole was finishing a long Elizabethan adventure story "to keep myself quiet." He was also doing semi-official propaganda work. Said he: "Because people realize the futility of war much more fully than in 1918, the result may be some new sort of realistic idealism...