Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Intense, thin-faced May Foster hopes to go into a convent, but she is waiting for a year to wind up their worldly affairs and make sure her husband is well started on his new road. Says the wife who may never see her husband again after this week: "Some people think I'm terrible, letting him go off like this after all these years of marriage, but it's God's will. Besides, if I could give him to his country, never knowing that he'd get back from the Leyte invasion...
Retorts Chaplain Hauge: "Even if it be true that Communism presents no temptation, that does not mean that Communism is not a danger-a danger to man himself. It does not make much difference whether one fails because one is seduced by temptation or because one bows to superior force. Communism does not offer itself as a new edition of Christianity; but it might very well induce, or seduce, the church to deliver a new edition of herself. If the church is brought under control by the new rulers, there is no need to destroy her utterly...
...remarkable properties of high-grade sheet mica as an insulator make it invaluable as a strategic war material, where it is essential for radio tubes, radar equipment, condensers, airplane sparkplugs. But the U.S., the world's largest user of mica, produced only 135 tons in 1948, had to import another 10,000 tons, chiefly from Brazil and India...
...make sure that his 1,400 production employees share the fervor, President Beveridge has a profit-sharing plan, maintains an elective employees' council to keep working conditions up to snuff. So well does the system work that the 800-man Easthampton plant now has 5,000 job applications in its files and a labor turnover of only 2%. Everyone at Stanley belongs to what they call the B.C.H. Club. Full name: Bright, Cheerful & Happy...
...July 1906, Walter Sherman Gifford, then 21 and two years out of Harvard, wrote his father the glad news of his promotion to assistant secretary & treasurer of Western Electric Co. Salary: $24 a week. Snapped the elder Gifford, a fiercely independent Yankee lumberman: "Any damn fool can make a success in a corporation...