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...With the go-ahead from the welfare agency, the client signed the necessary forms, and the papers were filed in court. Except in cases of extreme poverty, the client pays the court costs...
...years ago NATO commanders rubbed their hands at the promising prospect opened by the Paris treaties allowing Germany to rearm. Bonn promised NATO the manpower for 1,326 planes in 20 wings by 1960. But last week, two years after the go-ahead on rearmament, 18 months after pilot training began, the new Luftwaffe was still on the ground. The "few" were now Germans. The German Air Force (or "jaff," as the Americans pronounce it) boasts only 50 trained jet pilots, half of them base-bound as instructors, the rest aloft in a lone F-84 fighter squadron. A spare...
...like them, particularly young people, and the young people would sell their parents." Seeing the designs for the first time one chilly day in November 1954, Chrysler's brass gulped, fretted that they might be too strong for the U.S. public's taste, finally gave Exner the go-ahead and sank $300 million into putting out the new cars. Says Designer Exner: "It was a big, big gamble, but I felt that I was right...
Make & Break. But the racketeering coalition failed to last. Elkins decided that he was being doublecrossed by the Teamsters and their friends. Elkins testified that he had been told that a rival gambler had paid Frank Brewster $10,000 and had been given a Teamsters' go-ahead. Elkins went to Frank Brewster's headquarters for an angry confrontation...
...International Business Machines. When he heard what Busa wanted, IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson threw up his hands. "Even if you had time to waste for the rest of your life, you couldn't do a job like that," he said. "You seem to be more go-ahead and American than...