Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, McDonnell has come along fast. From a strictly Navy supplier, the company became a pillar of the Air Force with $1.2 billion worth of orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader...
...month-old son in a handsome house with a fine view of rich, rolling countryside. Austere and outwardly meek, he buried himself in the task of running the company he had created, but he found time to serve as a Cub scoutmaster, president of the chamber of commerce, a pillar of a neighboring town's Jewish temple...
Pretend, for a moment, that you are about forty-four years old, married and with a family, a pillar of your community ("active in community affairs, but not a 'politician',"), and On Your Way Up in a rather large organization...
What it meant to the economy was that the moneyed U.S. farmer was fast becoming a pillar of strength, buying and consuming with rare power to pick up the slack from other social groups. To many a businessman, the strongest market of 1958 is the farm market-the equivalent of discovering a rich, import-hungry foreign country. In Bloomington, Ill. Sears, Roebuck reports that its trucks go out loaded with freezers, ranges and refrigerators; on R.D.S. routes freezer sales alone are running 50% ahead of last year. Nor are appliances the only things that farmers want. With cash...
Short, apple-round and learnedly garrulous, Ambrose ambles through his adventures preceded by a pillar of chaos. While bodies are felled and dark deeds are done all about him, the philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...