Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed his mind last winter, when the Army withdrew its insistence on a single military commander. The man: Navy Secretary James Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat, who got his Washington start in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
Died. William Leslie Maxson, 49, jovial, rotund engineer and industrialist; of cancer; in Boston. Maxson, for 15 years a U.S. Navy officer, was blessed by dyers for two big aids in long-distance flying: 1) his invention of a process to precook and quick-freeze complete meals for easy preparation during flight; 2) his "robot navigator," a mechanical computer for quick solution of complex celestial navigation problems...
Appearance and Reality: A suavely naughty yarn about an aging French industrialist and Senator who philosophically finds his mistress even more attractive after she marries another...
Finland's present program is far from communization or even socialization. One extreme left-winger told me, crossly: "Even Finnish Socialists prefer to make small reforms in the existing capitalist system rather than change it for a new system." Said an industrialist: "Our Socialists are really very sound fellows. They are in the difficult position of having to talk a lot of socialization to attract the masses, without doing any real socializing...
Ludger Dionne, 59, is a canny industrialist who operates, among other things, a shoe factory, a heel factory and a rayon mill-all in St. Georges (pop. 6,000). Most of his rayon-mill hands-he runs two shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.-are daughters of local farmers. About 50 of them live in Le Foyer, a dormitory built as an annex to the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. On the first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls...