Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some anguish. Admits a Kefauver assistant: "It's like pulling a fly off flypaper." Even Nancy Kefauver has her tale of woe. Campaigning with Estes one time, she stepped from a plane to face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust at me the usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three...
...after checking with Adlai Stevenson, Dick Daley had huddled with his lieutenants at Chicago's Palmer House to scan a list of some 20 hopefuls-among them Steve Mitchell, Stevenson's old aide and former Democratic national chairman. After three hours Daley & Co. brought out of the hat a name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote. The result: after token resistance from downstaters, Judge Austin was nominated unanimously on the first ballot...
...full pay as long as the crisis lasted, many of them refused to report back for duty. Exhausted and disgusted at the extra work thrust upon them under Egyptian management, those that were still on duty seemed ready to quit at the drop of the company's hat. To keep the roster full Nasser has offered the pilots fantastic salaries, had his emissaries in a score of countries place ads in newspapers, proselyte in person among canal and rivermen...
...loans last year, borrows funds at 3.7% to 5%, lends them at an effective rate of 24%. But few balk. Explains H.F.C. President H. E. MacDonald: "When a man comes to us for a loan, he comes not as a customer or a client but as an applicant, with hat in hand...
Fueling the Boom. Customers, clients and hat-in-hand applicants have all contributed to the money shortage, putting massive pressure on the nation's credit resources in the race to translate higher-than-ever paychecks and profits into higher-than-ever living standards and productive capacity. To fuel the boom, the nation has run $770 billion in debt, a 65% increase since 1946 (see chart). While public debt has dwindled from 65% of the total to 45% in ten years, loans to individuals (including small businesses and farmers) have rocketed from $60 billion to $191 billion...