Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massive sail, i.e., superstructure, lifting with it a three-foot layer of ice. Crewmen axed through the ice, climbed down a ladder, found by celestial navigation check that they had scored a bull's-eye-the Pole was only 25 yards away. Electronics Technician Second Class Harold ("Pineapple") Meyer marched to the Pole, planted a candy-striped pole on the spot, and hoisted the state flag of Hawaii. While other crewmen went out in rotating groups of 20 to explore, Skipper Nicholson radioed to Operation Deepfreeze headquarters at the South Pole (loud and clear). Then he submerged, took Sargo...
...Last Days of Hitler), the dons found themselves with a candidate of their own-an old Balliol man who was then traveling in Africa. Off went a telegram to ask the traveler if he would accept. After an appropriate delay, and a sounding out of chances, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, said that he would...
...buffered penicillin G, $2.75 per 100. Retail prices would be in about the same proportion. All drugs sold by chemical name must meet the same Government standards of purity and potency as brand-named items. Connecticut was banking on an annual saving of at least $250,000, and Dr. Harold Pierce, the welfare department's medical director, thought the savings might run to $500,000. "This," said he, "is the entering wedge. If welfare recipients get drugs for less, why shouldn't the other 98% of the general public...
...British T.U.C. representatives, who considered him a cheeky, young know-it-all. Next year he won a year's scholarship at Ruskin College at Oxford, where he sat at the feet of such eminents as G.D.H. Cole, Kenneth Robinson, and Margery Perham, and breathed the heady socialism of Harold Laski's Grammar of Politics. "I still have the greatest feelings for Oxford," Mboya says. "It was a very impressive year." And, he adds, it impressed Europeans back in Kenya. With new confidence, he went to the U.S. for a lecture tour, met Walter Reuther, George Meany and David...
...small, ailing holding company called Associated Telephone Utilities, when he won a rate case for a subsidiary, that A.T.U., later reorganized as General Telephone, invited him to take over all its Ohio rate cases. By 1946 he was handling all General's U.S. rate cases. When President Harold V. Bozell retired in 1951, Power took over...