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Trial Run. In Vienna, Gustav Haubert, 40, asked the judge to let him spend his three-month sentence on an especially hard cot, added: "Also reduce my meals to the barest minimum. I have decided to go into a monastery after I leave jail, and I want to get in training...
...after the war, Boeing went into a dizzying tailspin. The torrent of contracts dried to a trickle, and production lines slowed down. As a final blow, Boeing President Philip Gustav Johnson, hard-driving engineer who had piloted Boeing through the war years, died suddenly late in 1944, and Boeing was without a chief...
...London, Princess Margaret, glittering in a diamond necklace and tiara, beamed warmly at the cheering crowd as her coach rolled up to Buckingham Palace, where Britain's royalty wined and dined Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise, who were making the first state visit of Swedish monarchs to England in 46 years. On her white tulle gown Margaret wore a miniature portrait of another handsome lady, her sister Queen Elizabeth...
...Glasses. One day late last year he got word that an old friend wanted to see him in Paris. On Nov. 17 Lausman and a companion went to the corner of Avenue Charles Floquet and the Rue Desaix and there confronted the old friend, Czech Ambassador Gustav Soucek. Said Soucek: "The political line at home will soon change to a more liberal line." Lausman was fascinated. He eagerly sought a second meeting...
...Central brought White in as president in August 1952 to replace hard-working Gustav Metzman, who had brought the road back from a 1946 deficit of $10.4 million to a net of $14.7 million in 1951. Metzman also had a $140 million-a-year rehabilitation program under way. White decided to cut the capital program, concentrate on improving the mainline roadbed. He trimmed out layers of top management and shut down some non-paying passenger lines. Last year net income hit $34 million, highest in nine years. Dividends of $1 a share were paid, and another 50? was declared this...