Word: greated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...time the Great Lakes opened for ore traffic last March, steelmen had made their forecast of the year's demand by letting the price of ore crack (the cracker: Henry Ford) for the first time in steel history. A month later, they dropped the price of steel by $4 a ton too. Their hope was to stay above their break-even point of 55% of capacity. By November they were not only at 96% of capacity, but confronted by an unfamiliar shortage in their coke and ore supplies. They even found themselves accused of not having capacity enough...
Charles Kettering has often said that U. S. industry lived for more than a decade on the fruits of its World War I research. The 1940 Revolution subjected Business still more to the rule of politics, but it spurred such technological advances as have made U. S. Business great...
...little creature down, he said. Let us not be cruel to the innocent creations of Almighty God. If it is not poison and grows no larger than a mouse and does not travel in great numbers and has no memory to speak of, let the timid little thing return to the earth...
...proprietor, "that amiable and boneheaded peer," the ninth Earl of Emsworth. In the course of some 40 years of nonsense, the multiple Wodehouse nitwits and their overlapping, interlacing misadventures have come to revolve more & more dizzily around Blandings. Hence only confirmed Wodehousians are sure if the stories are one great inspiration or several. Experts incline to recognize four...
...Will You Many Me? is a little bundle of letters of proposal rifled from the dim attic of the past. It makes a sentimental hour's reading less jumbled and so more satisfying than M. Lincoln Schuster's recent 563-page Treasury of the World's Great Letters. Editor Frau Scheu-Riesz groups her letters according to the architectural styles of their periods (Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, etc.) which she thinks they mirror. Scraps from the bundle...