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...coal & steel resources, and to carry out this aim, the members have set up a High Authority (a kind of executive office), a Council of Ministers (a kind of cabinet) and an Assembly (a kind of parliament). In Strasbourg last week, the Assembly met for the first time and forthwith decided to go beyond economics into the business of political unity. That job was really up to the Assembly of the projected European Defense Community, but the Schuman people were in no mood to wait. The Assembly voted overwhelmingly to draft up a constitution for Western European federation (deadline: March...
Showman Rose forthwith called a press conference in his plush office overlooking the stage of the Ziegfeld Theater. More than 20 newsmen responded. Billy opened by saying he was "stunned and bewildered." He had never intended to make that dirty affidavit public, he said, because he knew he could win his case without those "obscenities." It was Mrs. Bernie who had made the affidavit public property by filing her charge against...
...forthwith moved to Akron and founded General Tire & Rubber. Instead of selling direct to automakers, O'Neil set off in hot pursuit of the replacement tire market. He quickly made General Tire the world's fifth biggest rubber company, boosted sales to $44 million by 1941. Then, after first scorning the diversification of other rubber companies (e.g., Firestone's hardware, Goodrich's chemicals), O'Neil himself began to stretch out. He bought New England's Yankee radio network for $1.3 million...
...Zola was sent to school in Paris. He hid his provincial manners with an abrasive gruffness, but he could scarcely hide his provincial ignorance. In his final exam he declared that Charlemagne died in the 16th century, was forthwith flunked for being off by some 700 years. Apparently unconcerned, he plunged into a Bohemian life, took a tart for a mistress, and during one starved winter dressed in blankets because he had pawned even his last pair of pants to keep her. He wrote a trilogy of epic poems, notably bad and terribly long. His family, through a friend...
...mills must be restored to their owners forthwith...