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Despite such strains, loyalty runs strong. McDonnell's top 17 executives have worked there for an average of 23?? years. "It's a hell of a crucible," says one ex-McDonnell officer. "But it works. Mr. Mac operates on the theory that if you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves. A man tends to think, 'My God, if we spend all that time on the budget for a lousy little dinner, what's he going to do to me when I come up here with the presentation for some...
...your job or not. Sniveling is perfectly legitimate, and Johnny is a great hand at it." In 1957 Glenn sniveled the Marines into letting him try to beat the speed of sound from coast to coast. Flying an F8U, Glenn failed by nine minutes, but he did knock 23?? min. off the coast-to-coast speed record by covering the distance in 3 hr. 23 min. at an average speed of 726 m.p.h...
...House to be photographed with visiting delegates of the National Association of American Business Clubs, the Baraca Philathea Union and the Eta Upsilon Gamma Sorority. He was eating his luncheon when the balloting started. Back at the radio his only surprise was that other candidates had managed to get 23?? votes between them. To the convention he dispatched a message carefully prepared in advance...
Through its district banks the Farm Loan Board had outstanding advances of $1,171,000,000 to 408,000 rural borrowers on Nov. 30. About 23??% of these debtors, owing $275,450,000, were delinquent in their payments?11½% over 90 days, 12% under 90 days. Last year delinquencies ran about 10%. That about three out of four farmers had kept up their Farm Loan payments Commissioner Bestor thought was "an excellent showing under the circumstances." To rebut the notion that the Farm Loan Board was a harsh moneylender, he declared that only 3,848 loans ?less than...
...March 23???Radio address by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, auspices of women's division of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment; over National Broadcasting network...