Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ports. He had reached a sort of understanding with the Lee Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer, may get a paying berth aboard the ferry if a vacancy occurs. The ship went into drydock for its annual overhaul; O'Brien obligingly supervised the repairs. "Since I expect to be on this tub for some time yet." he said last week, "I want her to be seaworthy...
...Overhaul. Peter Grace has been overhauling his company to meet the new conditions ever since he took over from his father in 1946. Peter Grace found it short of top executive talent. He brought in executives from other firms and, although a graduate of Yale himself ('36), he put a stop to Grace's habit of hiring what he calls "rich men's sons from swanky colleges." Says Grace: "What we want are hungry, brainy young men who are eager to knock themselves...
Keeping Away. Vacationing at his home in Monroe, La., Chennault announced that his Formosa-based C.A.T.-which operates a fleet of 30 airliners over 3,100 miles of airways from Tokyo to Bangkok -will first overhaul, then charter or sell the planes. Said Chennault: "My interest is to keep them away from the Reds. This is the first Communist defeat in the Far East. That's the thing I take the most pride...
First prize, a portable Smith-Corona typewriter went to Cavin P. Leeman '52. Roger A. Pomeroy '55 won the second prize, a $20 Shaeffer pen set. Third prize, a free typewriter overhaul, was awarded to three people, John deBruynkops, III '53, Alden C. Davis '52, and Linette Peter '54. Fourth prize winner Richard C. Spelman '53 really hit the jackpot, winning 100 pounds of ice to be shipped anywhere in the United States...
After years of standing by while the Divinity School dropped in both quality and prestige, the Corporation has finally decided to overhaul Harvard's second oldest graduate department. In establishing a committee to raise $5,000,000 by public subscription, and in assuring another $1,000,000 if this goal is reached, the Corporation faced a difficult decision...