Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...type of operation that obviously needed investigation in the late 1950s was the home-repair racket. Fast-buck operators would talk a homeowner into making improvements such as installing a new heating system or aluminum siding. The owner signed a credit agreement. The work, usually cheap and shoddy, got done and the fast-buck men sold the credit agreement at a discount to a broker, commercial finance firm or a bank. If too many angry and defrauded homeowners threatened, the company simply folded. It was a business particularly vulnerable to bad publicity, and Karafin and Scolnick said...
...mechanic replaced a faulty electrical relay, a standard item on any jet transport. Then Test Pilot Brien Wygle gunned the plane down a mere 3,200 ft. of runway and climbed swiftly into the sky above Boeing Field near Seattle. Boeing's twin-engine 737 was making its late-starting entry in the race to sell short-haul jets to the world's airlines...
...airlines (eleven of them foreign) have ordered 146 of Boeing's smallest jetliner at an average price of $3,500,000. Boeing hopes to deliver the first models to West Germany's Lufthansa and to United Air Lines late this year. With a range of 1,300 miles, the 580-m.p.h. 737 can carry up to 101 passengers seated six abreast in its 12-ft. 4-in.-wide cabin. That is every bit as beamy as Boeing's longer 707s, 720s and 727s. A stretched-out version, the 737-200, will accommodate 117 travelers, and also comes...
...Daniel B. Brewster, 43, Democratic U.S. Senator from Maryland; by Carol Leiper Brewster, 50, Baltimore socialite and notable cam paign asset to her husband; by mutual consent; after twelve years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico. This week Brewster plans to marry Anne Bullitt Biddle, daughter of the late Ambassador William C. Bullitt, and divorced wife of Nicholas Biddle...
THROUGHOUT that long weekend in late November, 1963, it was impossible to conceive of John Kennedy as a dead person. We spent hours trying to disbelieve and, finally, hours isolated in a personal, idiosyncratic kind of grief. Never, because we were so convulsed, did we imagine what William Manchester has opened...