Word: second
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second radio speech on U. S. foreign policy Col. Lindbergh aroused bitter criticism...
...made the term "Morgan partner" a semi-mythical synonym not only for (at one time) $1,000,000 a year, but for financial diplomacy on an international scale. When War came, it was Partners Henry P. Davison and Dwight W. Morrow who led the House of Morgan into its second great era. Early embracing the English cause, by 1918 the House had underwritten $1,400,000,000 in Allied loans, had netted some $4 millions as purchasing agent for the Allies, and had more than doubled its capital funds...
Awed but not dizzied by all this is Tennessee Eastman's President Perley S. Wilcox ("Uncle Perley" to his employes). Now completing his forty-second year with Eastman, he has built his plant to 82 buildings, 372 acres, 5,000 workers (second to the Kodak Park Works, Rochester, N. Y.'s biggest plant). Last year his big plant produced some 50,000,000 Ibs. of cellulose acetate, of which one-half went into rayon yarn, one-eighth into Tenite I & II, the rest into film, wrapping sheets, lacquers. Gross: some $25,000,000. For Tennessee Eastman pioneering...
With 98% of legal production signed up, the first week's quota was set at 960,000 tons. It was slightly underproduced. A break in the cold spell sliced the second week's quota to 480,000 tons. Producers filled their quotas and shut down. Returning cold weather upped last week's quota to 720,000 tons. Again producers toed the mark...
Born. To Princess Caroline Mathilde, 27, and Second Son Prince Knud of Denmark. 39: their second child, a son, thus securing the line of succession to the throne, there being no other male heir in the royal family...