Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cunningham hangar was being fitted with a radical new set of liquid-cooled brakes whose specifications are still secret. This car, a Cunningham-V-12 Ferrari, is entered in the 200-mile President's Cup Race at Andrews Air Force Base next month. If the new brakes hold up (and earlier liquid-cooled brakes never have), Cunningham may be able to spring a major surprise on the Jaguars, Lancias and others at Le Mans...
...wrong with their staffers earning extra money so long as "they do their own jobs." But A.P. General Manager Frank Starzel took a much stricter view. Said he: "We deem it wholly untenable for any staff member to receive anything of value from news sources . . . Each staff member must hold himself aloof from any [such] entanglement...
Everyone knew that first-quarter sales would be off, compared with 1953. But what about earnings? For weeks, investors have been bidding stock prices up to new highs, staunchly believing that profits would hold up largely because of the death of the excess profits tax. Last week the news in the first batch of quarterly earnings and estimates was good (and the Dow-Jones industrials rose another four points, to 313.7).Items...
...propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man? . . . These Arabs steeped in crime and vice, to be placed on a level with industrious population is insulting and degrading to the community. . . . I hold up my hands against a proceeding which confers on the idle, vicious, degraded vagabond a right at the expense of the poor and industrious portion of the commonwealth...
...Novelist Brooks uses this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They are clannish to the point of absurdity, persist in thinking that they are the upper crust of East Bank...