Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey supporters from being seated and to set the stage for dramatic floor fights this week. His challenges to the Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and Indiana units were rejected. Though the Mississippi delegation was left unseated on the ground of racial bias and replaced by a half-white, half-black group, the decision hardly amounted to a McCarthy victory. Humphrey also supported the insurgents...
...West Germany's Der Spiegel, which calls it "un-factual," full of "goofs," and a "gross oversimplification" of the history of the steel and coal concern that manufactured German arms in both World Wars. Manchester, says Der Spiegel, is guilty of factual errors about present-day-Germany, half-truths about the Krupp empire, and "anti-German resentment." Manchester was calm, figuring all along that they wouldn't like the book in Germany...
...helped finance the founding of United. United at one time or another pulled under its wing Bill Boeing, Chance Vought and Igor Sikorsky, also gave birth to the now independent United Air Lines. Horner grew along with the company, masterminding Pratt & Whitney's World War II production of half the power (600 million h.p.) used in U.S. war planes. He became president of the entire company in 1943, after the war brought United into the jet age with characteristic success. Though Pratt & Whitney long lagged in turbine engines behind Rolls-Royce and G.E., Horner drove the company (which accounts...
...Viet Nam priorities, and the company must simultaneously continue development (at a cost of some $80 million so far) of its JT9D jet engine for the next generation of airliners. Then, of course, there are Horner's records to be beaten, such as United's peak first-half earnings, announced last week, of $32.5 million on sales of $1.3 billion. That is about triple what the company was earning in an entire year as recently...
...well, since Pearson's fiction is pretty lifeless, even ranked with the this-is-how-it-really-is political novel. Pearson has the advantage when it comes to describing the intricacies of congressional maneuver. Still, none of the acts of avarice or ambition in the novel are half so convincing-or so appalling-as the real-life instances set forth in The Case Against Congress...