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Word: killion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world service by summer. The timetable for additional orders: four passenger-cargo ships by July 1956, four to five new freighters for delivery by 1962, four to five more freighters for delivery by 1964, replace the Cleveland in 1964, the Wilson in 1965. Said President's President George Killion: "For years we've been forced to use war-built ships on routes for which they were not designed. But now American President is going to have a tailor-made ship for every route it serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The New Fleet | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...youth is being held at the Cambridge police department, where charges of attempted larceny and possession of a switch blade knife will probably be made against him. Cambridge police officers Lee O. Davenport and William Killion made the arrest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Teenager Caught Rifling Car in Alley Behind Winthrop House | 10/5/1954 | See Source »

Good Mixture. As American President's new skipper, Davies plans no radical change of course. He will keep the line's President George Killion, under whom the company turned a profit of $3,200,000 last year. But Davies thinks American President has a still brighter future, hopes to mix his oil and water businesses together. His oil company has six tankers, now chartered out to other companies, which American President may well take over. If & when his Middle East oil concession starts producing, it will have a potential customer in American President, which uses 15,000 barrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Dollars for Dollar | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Audience reaction was immediate and mixed. Booing students quickly organized into a small parade which, however, soon disbanded. A few minutes later, students set off a sodium bomb behind the home of M.I.T.'s President James R. Killion. The majority of the crowd, however, went back to the books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Ecstasy' Cancellation at M.I.T. Sets Off Student Parade, Bomb | 5/3/1951 | See Source »

Snorted Stanley Dollar: "The rankest pettifogging I ever saw . . ." He filed suit in federal district court, charging President Killion & Co. with contempt of court, and it looked as if the fight would go on for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Defeat for Dollar | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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