Word: holders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Hughes, at 36, is no amateur in the business, is an airman's airman: holder of the transcontinental speed record (7 hr., 28 min.), holder of the round-the-world record (3 days, 19 hr., 8 min.), big shareholder in great Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. He is a first-rate designer himself, has a personal staff of technicians at work in his own experimental laboratories. He and his staff drew up plans for the giant new Constellation transport (range 4,000 miles; capacity 57 passengers, cruising speed 283 m.p.h.) and Howard committed himself...
...peacetime, the U.S. had always been intimately conscious of the big man in the seersucker suit, grinning around his up-tilted cigaret holder, mopping his brow with a heavy, mole-speckled hand. Now the nation saw him not at all. It could piece his doings together only through an occasional secondhand glimpse such as at Harry Hopkins' wedding last week...
...Present holder of this title is a figure of a medieval hunter by Woodcarver Barnes's teacher, famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles. It ornaments the lobby of Manhattan's Time & Life Building (TIME...
...glowing story on his first big assignment, a Metropolitan Opera opening, by copying the names off the brass plates on box doors. Next morning Mr. Munsey summoned him and snorted: "You have succeeded in opening half the graves in Woodlawn Cemetery." Maury had reported present many an ancestral box holder long dead...
Home owners were less enthusiastic over the policies, particularly in inland sections where bombing seems doubly unlikely; but mortgage holders were getting set to put the heat on them to sign up regardless. Whether lenders had any right to demand such protection was a doubtful legal question. In England the mortgage holder has to share the premium costs on domestic war-damage protection...