Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FINANCING hit another obstacle. TWA's eccentric owner, Howard Hughes, who cleared the way for a $300 million loan a fortnight ago by agreeing to relinquish control of the line, backed out of the agreement...
Said the rich ship owner...
Other Democrats are afraid of Meyer's ideas and find them difficult to defend. One factory owner from Bennington, important figure in the State, was certain that Meyer should have tempered his arguments to appeal to different voter groups. "Whenever I start talking about Bill Meyer," he observed, "I get into fights, sometimes even first fights. I wish he'd made more of an effort to get the veteran's vote--Armistice Day is too late--by toning down his ideas on the draft...
There has been some speculation, however, that the MTA may have taken up an option to buy the Old Colony Line, which has similar facilities at Codman Square. The New Haven Railroad, owner of the line, has been operating the Codman installation at a loss...
There is just enough plot-a fertilizer company threatens to evict Frank and another houseboat owner from their moorings-to string together the sort of dialogue in which Bissell slyly captures the murmur of the heartland. But at book's end-after Frank has married a girl with the greatest body in the Illinois River valley from Grafton clear to Joliet-it is clear that Author Bissell simply has not tried very hard...