Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moral Victory. In Los Angeles, Howard R. Taylor charged a real-estate broker with removing buildings from Taylor's property, sued for $6,963, was awarded $5 for an outhouse...
...Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from...
...Bloomington, Ind., two readers used another tried & true method of criticizing the press. Bernard C. Gavit, dean of the Indiana University law school, and Law Professor W. Howard Mann had been called Communists by the Hearst press. They sued for $400,000. Last week, Hearst settled out of court for $25,000 and in seven papers* recanted the libel...
Johnson found the door shut at New York's City College, Eisler at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin (Marzani was also banned at Wisconsin). Howard Fast tried to speak on four campuses (Columbia, Brooklyn, City College and Hunter College) before a fifth, New York University...
Jack Frye left the presidency of TWA amid predictions that it would become a "Toonerville airline." It refused to buy new equipment, canceled the order for 18 Constellations which expansive Jack Frye wanted. Howard Hughes, who controls TWA, thought that what the airline needed was efficient economic operation of the planes it had. To get it, he put La Motte T. Cohu in as TWA president...