Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sandro, whose skull was fractured, possibly when she was dropped from Andrea Doria into a lifeboat. (She died next day at Boston's U.S. Public Service Hospital.) By 5 a.m. only Captain Calamai and a score of his crew were still aboard Andrea Doria, still trying to level her with auxiliary pumps. At 7 a.m. they admitted defeat, were taken off. Three hours later, while silent seafarers watched transfixed, Andrea Doria poised a polished fantail and motionless screws in the air, then slid down to the ocean's dark bottom. Behind her the sea bubbled and quivered...
...burst of inflation, he feared, would shake foreign confidence in the pound, and bring a new drain on the nation's gold reserve. In his drive to control credit, Mack the Knife has raised the government's rate on bank loans to 5½%, the highest level since 1932 Depression days, and twice the discount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life and love in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TiME, April...
Niarchos spends little time at any of his nine offices from Hamburg to San Pedro, transacts top-level business with bankers and charterers (in fluent French or English) over leisurely luncheons at quietly opulent restaurants such as Manhattan's Chambord and London's Mirabelle. Wherever he goes, he is dogged by daily packets containing interoffice memos and notes from his staff. When he wants to discuss a project with an associate, Niarchos summons the man to his side, once kept staffers shuttling to and from Switzerland for three months while he recovered from a skiing accident...
...that Freemasonry played a big role in the 1776 upheaval. Lafayette, they report, was distrusted by Washington until he became a member of an American Masonic lodge; thereafter, he was a young brother, or "an adopted son" to the first American commander in chief, who was himself a top-level Mason...