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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...Willow Run last week, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. laid off 5,000 workers and stopped production for six days for "inventory adjustment." While the shutdown gave K-F dealers, whose sales had been lagging, a chance to cut down the supply of cars' on hand, it also gave Wall Streeters a scare. K-F stock, which had tumbled from 15 5/8 to 3 3/8 in 21 months, dropped another s of a point to a 1949 closing...
During the war Hofer assisted Donald K. David of the Business School...
...June 24, however, an exclusion order was issued. Shortliffe immediately protested and asked for an explanation. He received no answer. Washington University's Dena of Faculties Edward K. Graham also asked for the reasons behind the exclusion order...
From the open eye in the wall of the Union Trust, R. K. Mellon could look out on this reassuring vision. Here in $38 million of new buildings, Pittsburgh was asserting its iron-jawed belief in itself, and its iron-jawed confidence that it could set things right. The Allegheny Conference was an experiment in a new and wiser capitalism-working to repair the damage done by the purposeful haste and thoughtlessness of the old empire builders. If capitalism couldn't do it, the men of Pittsburgh were convinced, no one else could...