Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...socialism." But the White House dropped the plan discreetly, soon after TVA-minded Democrats cried scandal over an apparent conflict of interest: Banker Adolphe H. Wenzell had served at the same time as 1) a vice president of New York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates financing agent, and 2) a Budget Bureau consultant on the contract. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell went on to rule that Dixon-Yates investors were not even entitled to payment for costs already incurred, because Wen-zell's dual role made the contract invalid. The Dixon-Yates utility firms went...
...cause of lung cancer, and that the greater the consumption of cigarettes, the greater the risk." Practical Dr. Heller sees little prospect of changing U.S. smoking habits, pins his hopes for lung-cancer prevention on con victing a specific substance in tobacco tars as the guilty agent, then getting...
...major company lost an $80 million contract because it was underbid by only $200,000, it ran a phone check, found that its lines were bugged throughout the country. It took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from him. Where wiretapping is illegal, confided one company agent, "there are other ways of getting information. The waiter serving lunch in the man's suite, the telegrams the bell captain might see, the maid who cleans the room, the switchboard operator. These people are paid to keep their eyes and ears open...
...picks up a check at the ticket counter, then goes directly to the flight gate. If he has a reservation, he boards the plane immediately; if not, an attendant checks whether space is available, passes the passenger through. Only when the aircraft is aloft does the passenger pay an agent for his ticket and any excess baggage. Passengers still need reservations to be absolutely certain of a seat, but the airlines expect plenty of extra seats to be available once the big-load jets (no passengers v. the DC-7's 75) start flying in quantity. Passengers will...
Gunrunners. There were arms aplenty available for the purpose, even though Washington has embargoed all weapons shipments to the Caribbean, except for Haiti, caught between Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In Miami last week, U.S. Supervising Customs Agent Joseph A. Fortier reported as a matter of fact that the arms business is booming. Many of the arms are bought in Northern centers, such as Newark, New York and Chicago, but almost all of them are shipped through Miami. For lack of an adequate staff, says Fortier, four out of every five shipments got through...