Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...electronics, but Admiral and Zenith, two of the largest television manufacturers, have no war orders. One manufacturer, who took over a huge war-surplus plant on a rush war job of the highest urgency, had to wait two months for the blueprints of the weapon he was to make...
With his hands full of plane engine production, Hives got an urgent request from Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook: Would Rolls make a new high-powered tank engine? Hives said no. When the Beaver persisted, Hives said yes, if the government would give him a credit of ?1,000,000 and let him strictly alone. Hives adapted the Merlin for tanks, made it the forerunner of the power plant in the Centurion...
...from the issuer, and then setting a noncompetitive price at which they sold them to other dealers and investors. As far as Stebbins could see, the investment bankers couldn't lose. Snapped Medina: "I don't see how else [they] could do it. [They] certainly would not . . . make a deal in which [they were] sure to lose money...
When Stebbins tried to make something of the fact that the defendants had fought against the SEC campaign to sell railroad and public utility securities at competitive bidding (TIME, March 25, 1940 et seq.) rather than at negotiated sale, Medina broke in sharply. What was wrong with that? he asked. What Stebbins was saying, said Medina, was that if you don't agree with the Government you ought "to keep your mouths shut ... It seems to me ... we are right on the brink of some form of totalitarianism...
Indispensable though they will be to historians, F.D.R.'s letters hardly make popular reading in bulk. Lacking the literary quality and range of Churchill's wartime writings, they succeed only intermittently in suggesting why Roosevelt was such a dynamic wartime leader or why he captured the love and affection of so many millions of Americans and their Allies. His gifts were essentially for aural relations. On the platform, on the radio and in the newsreels, his qualities got across in a manner only faintly suggested by the plain, black & white written word...