Word: worked
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were the industries which 1940's boom passed by. But none was more violently struck than aircraft. The planemakers began the year with an order backlog of $675,000,000 and 60,000 men at work. They ended the year with a $3,500,000,000 backlog, 164,000 men at work. Yet, corporately speaking, they ended the year as they had begun: small...
...orders, which (along with nearly $30,000,000 of shells, armor plate, etc.) almost put its common back into the black. American Locomotive got $38,000,000 of Army orders, paid off $5 a share on preferred arrears. Even Pullman, ever faithful to the rails, took on some arms work. If defense traffic sends the roads into the equipment market next year, they will find a crowd ahead of them...
...month's stock on the floors. Meantime the factories, still dodging priorities, managed to get in some advanced retooling (more facelifting) for the 19425. Having led every U. S. boom since 1921, Detroit could not be counted out of 1940-5. And it managed to keep its arms work (G. M. contracts alone totaled $400,000,000) as a sideline to its consumer market...
...teens, that he was totally color-blind dashed his ambitions to go to West Point. For a time he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the vague idea of becoming an engineer. The Boltz family business was fine Havana cigars, and in 1914 they sent Robert to work in the family plants in Cuba and Tampa. He was 27, headstrong and stubborn, and he thought he had a new system of cigar making. Two years later the business was busted...
...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...