Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Travel has always been a problem for Hefner, who speaks no foreign languages and got so nervous ("Call it womb sickness") on his only previous trip to Europe that he fled back to Chicago after a week. This time he plans to do it right. Moving along the production line at McDonnell Douglas Corp. is a $5,000,000 "stretched" version of the DC-9, already painted black...
...Steelmakers got a big lift from the auto boom, but results were still uneven as the industry continued to be hurt by competition from imports. U.S. Steel reported earnings of $253 million, seemingly much better than the $172 million of the year before. But the gain was entirely attributable to the company's switchover to straight-line depreciation; otherwise, its profit would have only been $94 million. Accounting changes also contributed to profit increases at Inland Steel (up 44%), Bethlehem (21%) and Republic Steel...
...brother John, in the dining room of their food warehouse. The brothers became important back-roomers in city and state affairs. John worked the Democratic side and was rewarded with an associate district judgeship; Tom earned some personal lOUs as a fund raiser for the G.O.P., got on the party's national finance committee and was a frequent guest at President Eisenhower's White House stag dinners. There he befriended then Vice President Richard Nixon. He also became influential in the Greek Orthodox Church...
Despite all precautions, bankers believe that their institutions will remain a favorite robbery target because they can be relatively easy and safe to hold up. In Washington, one stickup man admitted that he switched to robbing banks because holding up liquor stores "got to be too dangerous...
...YORK--The Harvard basketball team got all the bad breaks at all the bad moments as it came within a referee's whistle of upsetting nationally ranked Columbia before bowing 81-75 here tonight...