Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honeymoon is over," said Home, as he took the floor to blast Labor for raising taxes, strangling credit and threatening to cancel the British aircraft industry's multimillion-dollar project for the supersonic Concord airliner. Home could hardly be heard. For as he began to speak the House dissolved into a raging bedlam of angry partisans, bellowing insults at one another, shaking fists, waving sheaves of papers in the turbulent air. Amid repeated pleas for order, Sir Alec managed to charge that the Labor government had gone back on its campaign promises to revitalize Britain, turned instead to "panic...
...legislature to 1) pass a constitutional amendment calling for reapportionment on a basis other than population, and 2) send it to "this misguided group of people who are supposed to be judges on the Supreme Court." Then Faubus got busy trying to make good on two campaign promises: a multimillion-dollar road-building program and a $1,000 raise for each of Arkansas' 16,756 public-school teachers...
...market -now dominated by the French-at a time when the company faces a shrinking backlog of U.S. defense work. For Bölkow, rich in brains but shy of capital, it not only provides cash but leads to easier financing in a field that devours development funds in multimillion-dollar gulps...
Nothing annoys President Johnson more than the notion that he cannot get good men to come to work - for him - in Washington. Last week, in his first Cabinet appointment, the President took special pains to disprove that theory: he named John T. Connor, 50, president of the multimillion-dollar drug firm, Merck & Co., as his new Secretary of Commerce to replace Luther Hodges...
Died. Alberto Byington Jr., 60, Brazilian tycoon who pyramided his father's multimillion-dollar holdings by establishing Brazil's first movie, record and air-conditioning companies, added a network of 22 radio stations, 250 cold storage plants, and a major bauxite development-all on top of a vast coffee empire; of hepatitis; in Rio de Janeiro...