Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dart threw a $90,000 party complete with film stars, searchlights and 10,000 free orchids. To Justin Dart, onetime tackle at Northwestern University, the celebration was the booming kickoff to the Rexall team's postwar expansion program. But by last week many a stockholder had begun to wonder why Rexall had not followed up with a few smashing plays...
Under aging Wonder Boy Dart, now 42, Rexall's earnings slipped from $4,048,403 in 1946 to $1,415,869 last year. For the first nine months of this year, Rexall reported a loss of $1,167,125. For the full year, Dart estimated last week, the loss would be cut, though it would still be around $500,000. Said Dart: "We knew that trouble was coming-but we didn't realize it would hit us so fast...
...chairman, Dr. Selman Waksman, is one of the world's top microbiologists. He has won for his university not only fame but fortune. Streptomycin for a 60-day course of treatment costs $60 to $80. A dozen chemical companies are turning out the new wonder drug, and for every gram (1/28 of an ounce) sold, Rutgers gets 2?. By last week, the university's harvest of pennies had reached more than...
...will still find it hard to condone the deal, made behind China's back, by which Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill...
...Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...