Word: prescott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then fight, fight, fight, for we win tonight. . ." echoed along Prescott St. last night, as the Band, celebrating its 35th anniversary, began its second alumni reunion...
After squeezing into a basement room in Lowell Hose, and then in the basement of Paine, the band finally obtained a location big enough to have a place of honor. In 1952 the band moved to its present headquarters at 9 Prescott Street, through the courtesy of the Varsity Club above. Once dusty walls are now enlivened by appropriated road signs: old refrigerators now house uniforms. The band motto, "Illegitimacy Non Carborundum," adorns a main wall...
...told the Civil Aeronautics Board that they could not make a go of it and were splitting up for good. But the bigger news of the announcement was what it told of the sick state of the independent air-freight business. Said Flying Tiger President Robert W. Prescott, who started his line in 1945: "We are through as far as this deal is concerned, and we're through as far as air freight is concerned. You can't fight the economic facts of life...
...mechanics' unions, the Tiger locals of the pilots' A.F.L. union and independent mechanics' union) demanded for men lopped off the payroll as a result of the merger. The deal ordered by CAB: a year's salary, or 60% of it for four years. Says Prescott: "We believed that if the volume of business held up there would be relatively few terminations, and those could be paid out of earnings...
...Manhattan last week a one-man Senate investigating committee spaded up some fresh dirt on postwar apartment projects backed by the Federal Housing Administration (TIME, July 26). Called to the stand by Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush was Lawyer Thomas Grace, who was New York State FHA director from...