Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Henry brought in Ernest R. Breech, a crack production man who had run three General Motors subsidiaries, and made him executive vice president. When he joined Ford, said Breech, "there was no second team. We had nothing but top bosses and workers. We had no real research. Even the new [postwar] engine was no good; the Rouge was obsolete, and the company had lost $55 million in the first half of '46. About all we had that was any 'good was the name of Ford...
...charged, of course, that McKay's decision was a "sellout" to private interests. McKay made it clear that his department would still go on building big, multi-purpose dams where private capital could not do the job. But the Administration had decided to let private enterprise have first crack at river valley development jobs it could handle...
After a conference with city officials on the parking jam-ups around the Houses, Dean Leighton yesterday announced that the College would begin an immediate crack-down on violators of parking regulations...
...tall, dreamy girl, a crack shot with a pistol, and she rode to hounds like a hussar. Horses were in the family, for her Irish father was hard-riding Tommy Gonne of Donnybrook, a colonel in the British army. She had been born (of an English mother, who died in her childhood) within cannon shot of Aldershot, and privately educated in France by a governess with Republican views. At 16, she was head of her father's household in Dublin, where he was Assistant Adjutant General. She was presented in 1881 at the viceregal court, and she "danced with...
...Smith, gambling is not a gamble at all; it is a cold business deal that he has made with the law of averages. By combining the caution of a banker, the calculations of a mathematician and the promotional genius of a crack retailer. Smith has made Harold's Club the biggest business in Reno and the biggest gambling house in the U.S. Last year an average of 10.000 customers jammed into Harold's every day. bet well over $100 million over the year that they could beat Ray Smith's partnership with chance. Upwards...