Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Lewis B. Oliver Jr, '61, co-author of the report, the recommendation to reduce PT requirements represents "an attempt to reconcile the views of two groups--the Student Employment Office and the Department of Physical Training...
...charge of contacting the HLU, stated, "In no way should our action be construed as an endorsement of Wang. We merely feel that every opinion has a right to be expressed. We would like to cooperate with the Liberal Union in providing a vehicle for Wang in his attempt to express his opinions...
...fashion, outside a spaceship or inhabited satellite. The present suit has no joints in its arms or legs, and so it has little flexibility when inflated. Since it is meant to be worn for short periods only, there are no provisions for taking food, and no latrine facilities. Little attempt has been made to protect the wearer against the fierce temperature effects of empty space. If he were exposed to full sunlight in a vacuum, he would probably fry on one side and freeze solid on the other...
Financier Leopold D. Silberstein, who won only an active ulcer in his attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co. last May, bad reason for more pain. To help pay off the huge debts contracted in the proxy fight, his Penn-Texas Corp. last week was forced to 1) omit a quarterly dividend on preferred stock, 2) sell a major subsidiary, Industrial Brownhoist Corp. of Bay City, Mich., one of the first companies in the Silberstein empire. An undisclosed buyer picked it up for $3,000,000 in cash-half of what Penn-Texas paid for it in 1954. Other subsidiaries...
Actually, Silberstein's renewed stock buying was regarded by Wall Street as less a new take-over attempt than a desperate move to save his skin. As a recent Penn-Texas report to the Securities and Exchange Commission made clear, Silberstein has "Blundered into one of the weirdest financial squeezes in Wall Street history. To buy his F-M stock, Silberstein had to scour the U.S. for loans, some carrying interest rates and other costs totaling 15%, and almost all due within a year. Just to get some of the loans from "24 banks in various parts...