Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanded steadily, from 22 planes, 923 employees, and 3,692 route miles in 1937 to 90 planes, 7,778 employees, and 9,930 miles today. It developed an admirable safety record. And, to the horror of the industry (which not only had to endure the ignominy of loss, but listen to Rickenbacker crow), he made profits every year. In 1947, when other lines lost a record total of $20 million. Eastern made $1,300,000. A fortnight ago he happily announced that it had made $1,968,000 in 1949) Eastern's fifteenth successive year in the black...
...East Lansing in 1941 was to order the door of his office taken down and carted away. A friendly, floppy-gaited man, he wanted everybody to feel free to walk right in and talk to him. Tilted back in his swivel chair at his cluttered desk, he would listen patiently to laggard students, troubled facultymen, Michigan farmers and taxpayers. The purpose of a land-grant college, he said, should be "service to all people." Last week, after nine years, M.S.C. had reason to know what 47-year-old "Uncle John" Hannah meant...
...musicians, during the day teachers, carpenters, painters and salesmen, went on playing for their own pleasure at the Ionic Temple. Before long, so many people dropped in to listen that the players decided to start giving concerts. They gave them Scandinavian style. During intermissions the musicians would step down from the stage, mingle with the guests. After the concert, there would be coffee, cakes, sometimes a dance. Over the years the orchestra grew in size from 36 to 75; when they got a regular conductor, Vienna-born Eduard Werner, they began to grow in proficiency. In recent years their weekly...
...Wicks got in touch with his old friend, Dan O'Connell, Albany's Democratic boss. Dan was sick in bed but willing to listen, for he had some personal problems. The state courts had been meddling in real-estate assessments in Albany, which are carefully adjusted to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies. Democrat Dan found that annoying. Furthermore, if & when the state took over rent control, O'Connell would have another problem: the Albany staff of the Federal Housing Expediter, which happens to be stuffed with O'Connell men, would...
Scientists, often suspicious of political advice from laymen, listen attentively when their colleague, tall, mild-mannered Dr. Frederick Seitz, 38, of the University of Illinois, has something to say. One of the most respected of U.S. physicists, he played a key part in the wartime development of the atom bomb. In an article in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Dr. Seitz issues a call to arms which has caused an extraordinary stir in scientific circles...