Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to work for his father, now president of the Kansas City Southern, as assistant to the general manager. From there on, the tracks were cleared. Deramus Sr. worked with a stockholders' group that was dissatisfied with the management of Chicago Great Western, succeeded in making Coalman Grant Stauffer president last fall. Stauffer made young Bill Deramus his assistant in the Great Western, whose 1,500 miles of track tap six Midwestern states. Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings...
...less than two months later, the Committee on Appointments voted by four to two not to grant him tenure. This was tantamount to dismissal...
...research conducted by Dr. Hertz and others which led to the Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, was financed by a grant from the John and Mary Markle Fund in New York City and the Milton N. Proctor Fund here. Most of the work was done at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at M.I.T...
...flag-draped platform in Philadelphia, a white-bearded man in plug hat and frock coat stood towering over President Ulysses S. Grant. The visitor was Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who had come north on the British liner Hevelius for the U.S.'s centennial exposition. When a technician explained to him that the newly invented Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall made some 36 revolutions a minute, Dom Pedro cracked: "That is better than our Latin American republics...
Growing Pains. In Taylorville, Ill., Bill Grant, manager of a chain of movie theaters, received a $5 bill and an anonymous letter: "This money is in payment for the times. I lied about my age in order to get into the show for half price...