Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co., which has built many of the Navy's search planes, last week was itself the object of a naval rescue party. Although it has more than $400 million of defense orders on its books, Martin does not have enough working capital to keep going. One reason: it was hard hit in the postwar collapse of the airplane industry. Another: it took such heavy losses on its new 4-0-4 transport, which it sold to Eastern Air Lines and TWA at too low a price, that its 1950 net of $3.1 million...
...object most strongly to the wording, "in a rickety office in Fleet Street," in your Dec. 10 article on Burke's Landed Gentry. I also wish to make it absolutely clear that I never authorized the word "bribery," e.g., "Editor L. G. Pine has always been besieged by applicants who by cajolery, trickery or even bribery attempt to crash the book." I wish to make it clear that no attempt at bribery has ever been made...
...success in the future is the object of the Business School, then a three week accelerated course in the use of the phone may be necessary...
...ultra modernists were scarcely better. Dominating their wing were a jittering mobile of wire and red fins by Alexander Calder, hung incongruously under the museum's vaulted ceiling, and Alexander Archipenko's Figure, an enormous 14-ft. object of aluminum-painted iron which resembled an upended torpedo. The pleasantest of the pure abstractions was David Smith's lively Flight, which whisked round corners, took unexpected dips with the carefully tracked abandon of a rollercoaster...
...like to add one comment," Cole interposed and proceeded to object to a repetitious sentence. A few words were changed in the resolution and just as everyone prepared to vote, Boshkoff burst in: "May I say one more thing and then I'll shut up?" He then redefined his position. Vince McCarthy agreed that revoking the membership rule is "encouraging them to be cowards...and defy the law." Cole said, "we can't condemn these people as cowardly without giving them a chance to present their case...