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...find him guilty [of bribery]. For my dough he's a go-through guy." More ominous and often just beneath the surface was the reaction of a Philadelphia truck driver when asked what he thought of Hoffa: "I'd rather look at that river over there than float...
...pitch controls. One de luxe feature: pushbutton starting fired by three flashlight batteries. Gluhareff so far has tested his helicopter in tethered flight, estimates that when he tries free flight he will soar to 4,500 feet, buzz along at 50 m.p.h., have a cruising range of 25 miles, float lightly to earth if the engines conk...
...with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred to this as "scallywagging." Smart shops advertised that beneath their millinery could be found lightweight steel caps. By German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating...
...should boost its rates more in line with the market level. While some financial men fear that such a move would demoralize the entire Government bond market by depressing lower-paying issues, others argue that the Treasury needs strong medicine to solve its problems. Still another idea is to float a convertible bond. The U.S. Treasury could issue a convertible bond at 4% interest, for example, give investors the option of either cashing it in after one year, or of converting it into a longterm, twelve-year bond paying 4%. Thus investors would have an incentive to buy, since...
...movie's individuals are seen microscopically as mere cells of the whole. The problem is to drag, float and worry The Gun (recast from C. S. Forester's novel of that name) halfway across Spain to the walled city of Avila. The year is 1810. The objective: to bring down the wall, storm the breach and recapture Avila from the headquarters garrison...