Word: packet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order was a double victory for Fairchild and its president, Richard S. Boutelle, 55. It meant that the company's 9,000-man Hagerstown plant could keep running with almost no layoffs, when production of its own twin-tailed C-119 Packets tapers off next year. And it was also the final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser...
...east to St. Louis and rented an apartment. Both promptly got drunk. They fought, and Hall, after battering Bonnie's face, walked out. He went to a saloon and watched the sixth game of the World Series on television. He left behind a wrapper for a $2,000 packet of the ransom money. A barfly picked it up, looked at the figure, dropped it back on the floor...
...dust of isolation has often settled on men's work and obscured their lives. In this sense no artist is more typically Spanish than Francisco de Zurbaran, one of Spain's great masters. Until 1905, about all that was known of him came from a yellowed packet of papers and a few disputed paintings found in out-of-the-way monasteries. That year, the first Zurbaran exhibit in modern times was held in Madrid, and the experts marveled that so little was known of the artist whom King Philip IV named "painter of the King and king...
...biographer has recorded the last days of Ulysses S. Grant at that cottage, but few have known them as well as Hungarian-born Historian Stefan Lorant (Lincoln-A Picture Story of His Life-Harper; $6). Last week Lorant presented the source of his knowledge to West Point-a packet of manuscripts that he had bought from Grant's descendants. Among the manuscripts were nine tragic little notes, penciled by West Pointer Grant himself. Such notes were about his only means of conversation after cancer destroyed his voice...
...industry turned out a tidy little packet of advice to anxious-to-please politicians. To help "those in public life to present their views by television convincingly," the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters issued Campaigning on TV, an 18-page pamphlet studded with admonitory italics ("You will begin your talk with a large audience -your job is to keep that audience") and containing a long list of dos and don'ts. Samples...