Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Financier Leopold Dias Silberstein started to move in on Fairbanks, Morse & Co. in January, President Robert H. Morse Jr. predicted that he would "run into a buzz saw." Last week Silberstein got cut up. The New York Stock Exchange agreed to list 141,890 new shares of Fairbanks, Morse stock, giving the Chicago company the additional shares it needed for a stock trade with Canadian Locomotive Co. (TIME, Feb. 6), which it already controls. Thus President Morse, whose family and management own nearly 350,000 (of 1,228,590) shares of stock in the 98-year-old company, hopes...
...minute Congress adjourns each summer, U.S. Senators and Representatives buzz off like bumblebees in clover. Years ago, they used to head home for personal fence-mending; in the era of mass communications, they head for Europe in the hope of headlines and, on their return, TV appearances. The biggest Congressional tourist attraction this season, by all odds, was Soviet Russia and her satellites, most of whom rolled up the Iron Curtain and rolled out the Welcome reception became. During an interview with Soviet Commissars Georgy Malenkov and Lazar Kaganovich. Malone enthusiastically toastedco-existence, and then impetuously offered the Russians...
...Marquis and Marquise walked through the sunny streets of Oizon last week, their hands clasped, looking neither right nor left, the villagers continued to buzz and whisper. It was the last time they would ever see the Marquis and Marquise...
...light-plane field World War I Planemaker Morane-Saulnier has built a sleek, four-place light jet called the Paris which can buzz along at 400 m.p.h. serve either as a military liaison plane or a highspeed executive transport. Though only one prototype has been built, U.S. Light-Plane-Maker Beechcraft, no novice in the field, is so impressed with the Paris that it is showing it around the U.S., will build for flying businessmen if there are enough orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington...
...Firebee carries a collection of electronic "black boxes" that do almost as well. It can fly under automatic controls, or it can be flown by radio from a distance. It can make a gunnery run on a real airplane as if a human pilot were on board. It can buzz in curves like a June bug, giving the pilot who tries to attack it a simulated dogfight. When posing as a bomber, it can carry radar-reflecting devices that make it look like a large airplane on the radarscope...