Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table conversation in the Northern U.S. this winter seems complete without talk of the new ski slope or the latest office victim of an ill-conceived jump turn. Skiing is quickly coming of age as a major U.S. participant sport. Wherever there is snow, thousands are heading for the slopes and skiing's high, heady adventure; from New Hampshire to New Mexico and West Virginia to Washington State, skiers roll up record business for resort operators and equipment sellers. A dedicated band of cultists, skiers seem oblivious of skiing's built-in hazards. Asks...
Chairman James S. Duncan resigned because of "ill health," and Colonel W. Eric Phillips, backed by 30% of the voting stock, became chairman and chief executive officer. Phillips, who had brought Thornbrough to Toronto from the Ferguson tractor division a year before, promoted him to president with authority to overhaul the company...
Monmouth, Ill...
Your Jan. 12 article on General Electric and Ralph Cordiner was most interesting and well presented. However, Mr. Cordiner's ideas on decentralization have been carried out with such expediency in the Schenectady area that hundreds of workers have found themselves stranded in an area ill-prepared for such drastic changes...
...officer material, it rendered a sound judgment. It was not only that the overage (22) cadet had been a U.S. army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...