Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...acting, Du Pont, G. M., Chrysler and others like them had made their peace with the Revolution. They showed the rest of Business a way both to stay in business and to keep out of trouble. In making that deal, Business might or might not believe in the emergency; it did not care to say. It was of no moment, for Business was no longer in power...
...Defense production, none footed it so featly as the automakers. As soon as the President called for 50,000 planes, people figured Detroit would make few cars that year. But before anyone could say whether or not Detroit should have the necessary tools, its retooling was already under way...
...daughter $100,000. With his wife's money, Boltz went back to school-this time to study law at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became a deacon and trustee of Germantown's Second Presbyterian Church...
...must first be approved in Federal court, then be ratified by 67% of the company's security holders. Last week Judge Robert N. Wilkin gave tacit approval to the plan, by overruling objections to it. Tired of fighting, C. & O. indicated it would put no obstacle in the way of ratification...
Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan's work, they are likable or loathsome, depending on the reader's taste...