Word: emanuel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. from Financier Victor Emanuel in 1947, Odium expected a rough ride. Like other investors in aviation, he knew that the aircraft industry was in the midst of a postwar shakedown. But the ride was far rougher than Odium had expected...
...before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...
Before the U.S. press had got very far, the British hit the ceiling. War Secretary Emanuel Shinwell, who like most other Labor leaders has been free in his denunciation of free-enterprise capitalism as practiced in the U.S., last week cried petulantly: "Our magnificent efforts in the past are being overlooked." Cried the tabloid pro-Laborite Sunday Pictorial: "It is fair to say that the British are riled; in fact, we are damned annoyed...We British are tired of Yankee insults...
...publishers have been as prolific as E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius. In 30 years he has sold more than 300 million of his world-famed Little Blue Books, whose 2,000 volumes range from the Bible, Shakespeare and Aristotle to socialism, psychoanalysis and sex. Haldeman-Julius, an agnostic, has infuriated clergymen and delighted village atheists, but he has probably helped to open as many curious minds as he has helped to frazzle unstable ones. Last week, in the biggest sale of his career, he slashed his famed Little Blue Books from 10? to 6?, in an attempt to unload...
...scared into "a perfectly insane and abject terror" by a shape squatting invisibly before him. For two years the elder James searched for relief from his fearful visitation, tried everything from water cures to cheerful company, eventually found peace only in the esoteric mysticism of Swedish Philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg...