Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signature on papers prepared and cleared by the Government departments concerned, the President approved a whole series of important appointments, e.g., that of Herbert V. Prochnow, 58, a Chicago banker, as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. By week's end the President was well enough to hold his first important business conferences since he became ill, conferred twice with Vice President Richard Nixon (see below). This week he planned to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the forthcoming Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference in Geneva...
...white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned at first but had to be called off in favor of an outdoor celebration and parade through Witherbee and neighboring Mineville. There was no hall in the area big enough to hold the crowd that came to cheer the Witherbee boy who had pitched Brooklyn to its first world championship...
Martin was presumably chosen because it builds the Navy's Viking rockets, which hold the single-stage altitude record. The Navy will have overall supervision of Project Vanguard. The satellite itself is the responsibility of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Its size has not been decided, but the Department of Defense promised that it will be big enough to carry instruments and will be tracked from the ground by optical and electronic devices...
...stock drops in value, many companies provide truck-sized loophole's to let workers escape from their payments. Inland Steel, Delta C & S Air Lines, Atlanta's Citizens' & Southern National Bank and Dow Chemical all hold the stock until the final payment is made; then if a worker decides that he does not want the stock, his money is returned...
...shining very brightly the other day, so the Eliot Drama Group decided to hold its rehearsal outside. It is currently practicing for its first production, "The Tempest," to be produced beginning on Oct. 20 in the Eliot House Dining Hall. The scene which is pictured here is from one of the masques in the famous Shakespearean romance...