Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt's brain-trusters of the early New Deal had vanished from Harry Truman's Administration. Only David Lilienthal and James McCauley Landis remained in important jobs. Last week hawk-eyed Jim Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and one of the keenest legal eagles of them all, got his walking papers...
...longest step in aeronautical development since Orville Wright first flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 44 years ago. But the Air Force's pride of achievement was dulled by the fact that it had not succeeded in guarding the secret of basic aerodynamic design which had opened up the supersonic speed zone. The Air Force' could and did keep secret the speeds which had been attained in its epoch-making flight...
...Hawk-nosed, hawk-fast Sosthenes Behn has run International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pretty much as a one-man show. Undisputed boss of the world-straddling empire he helped found, he has remained so by moving faster than bosses of governments. In 1941, just a few days before the Nazis moved in, Behn sold l.T. & T's telephone-operating subsidiary in Rumania to the government at a handsome profit. He sold out in Argentina last year for $95 million (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), and he got $88 million in cash and bonds for l.T. & T. properties in Spain...
...book, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Americans might have seen some of Thackeray's illustrations before (in the Everyman's Library edition), but the Morgan copy was in Thackeray's own neat, minuscule handwriting, and in his watercolors. Thackeray's absurdly hawk-nosed countesses, spindle-shanked kings, periwigged barons, and tubby, pimply princes looked as fresh as if he had just laid down his pen and brush upon his "happy, harmless fableland...
Before dinner, Bob Kleberg, slicked up in his whipcord pants but still wearing fancy high-heeled boots, likes to stride up & down the living room with a bourbon old-fashioned in his hand and give his expert opinion on everything from horses, cattle, politics, bourbon to how high the hawk flies. By means of a telephone on a 30-ft. extension, he is able to sandwich in long-distance business calls as he walks...