Word: foresting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Americans think of Norway as a cold slice of northern forest and fjord, of Norwegian writers as weighty (like Sigrid Undset) or gloomy (like Knut Hamsun). But a Norwegian novel published this week is as different from this preconception as its author's startling name. It could have been written in any country of Europe...
...this week finished widening the main street of Forest Hills, L. I., home of U. S. championship tennis. So surprised, pleased, grateful were 125 merchants by the speed and skill with which the work was done, that they invited the 100-odd workers to eat cold cuts, drink beer at a local roof garden...
Judge Caffey put in a word first. Said he: "May I inject the remark that I am most helped by statements which omit the trees and show me the forest...
...Government's case many a tree had been shown Judge Caffey in 18,331 pages of evidence taken in court. Out of these many trees, the Government's smart young men tried to make a forest by presenting a 291-page brief, for Judge Caffey to digest while the defense was in process. He needed a good digestion. With 159 court days behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute...
...trees in the Federal forest is the contention that when Arthur Vining Davis organized Aluminium Ltd. in 1928, he had no intention of making it a competitor of Alcoa. What he did want, the Government said, was to reach through Aluminium Ltd. into the world aluminum cartel and share international trade with Swiss, German, French and British aluminum monopolies on a nice, friendly basis, with an ugly throat-cutting all laid out for any upstart competitors...