Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game he was after, he had need of all this statistical ammunition. As a spokesman for 17 U.S. airlines, hawk-nosed Ralph Shepard Damon, vice president and general manager of American Airlines, hoped to kill off, once & for all, the monopolistic chosen instrument-or community company-which Pan American's Juan Trippe advocates as the keystone of U.S. international air policy...
...Braniff searched the air transport industry for good men, sent his gangling Braniff Airways north to tap the rich traffic at Kansas City, Chicago and Denver. A businessman with a hawk eye for facts & figures, Braniff watched his operating costs, held losses at a minimum...
...mates of the 365th "Hell Hawk" group of Thunderbolt pilots, 22-year-old Lieut. Edward Syszmanski is "The Mad Polack of Brooklyn," in recognition of his fanatic artistry at ground-level train-busting. The Syszmanski technique: "I come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving...
...news struck among Mexico's retail and mail-order merchants like a hawk among chickens. They have no marketing and merchandising methods to approach the slick, fast moving Sears operation...
...meet the manpower pinch, local draft boards were already calling up deferred farm workers aged 18 to 25 and sending them off to the services. To most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's hawk-nosed Senator William Langer, collected his farmers' mail, laid some of it before Congress as it considered the May-Bailey bill to draft 4-Fs. Samples, from Dakota farming towns...