Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair originally meant the rendering of service without money payment a system under which young European girls agree to work for room and board in another country to learn the language. Such girls are seldom treated as ordinary domestics, usually eat and travel with the family they visit. Anne-Marie reportedly earned $100 a month with the Rockefellers...
ROCKEFELLER bankrolls blue-sky companies few other capitalists would touch. But he selects his risks carefully. He likes to back young men whose chief assets are ideas ("That is business democracy"), favors brainy companies that may contribute to national defense. A World War II Navy lieutenant commander, he says: "I never demobilized." That was one reason why he bet heavily on aircraft and missile stocks long before they boomed...
Rockefeller got blooded in venture capital by helping round up $3,500,000 to refinance young Eastern Air Lines in 1938. He saved the day for one of his boyhood heroes, President Eddie Rickenbacker, who almost lost control to a bump-Rickenbacker group. Rockefeller took 24,400 shares of Eastern at $9; each is now worth $155 on a pre-split basis, and Rockefeller, with $3,970,000 worth, is Eastern's biggest stockholder. In 1939 an unknown plane designer, J. S. McDonnell, came to him with some paper plans for an advanced type of fighter. Rockefeller...
...became clearer than ever that the Communist state, even when men try to liberalize it, cannot do without coercion and police power. Author Gibney finds another way of saying this, in the words of a witty Polish intellectual. In a small Jewish congregation, so goes the story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans and asked: "Tell me, Comrade Rabbi, can you build 'socialism in one country'?" The rabbi thought deeply. "Yes," he replied finally. "You can build socialism in one country, but you have to live in another...
...offer his daughter or son. To go alone into a world of tightening snares was a little easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard-dying concern about keeping their virginity...