Word: prescott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest air-freight carrier, with a fleet of 60 planes, assets of about $22 million, and approximately 46% of the U.S. cargo business. Revenues of the two companies have been running at the combined rate of $36 million a year. The merger, according to Flying Tiger President Robert W. Prescott, who will run the new company, should result in the saving of some $750,000 by eliminating duplicate facilities. Said he: It is "a major step toward the creation of a strong, independent branch of the air-freight industry...
Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...
...Prescott Proposals (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) has a highly topical setting, one that is far more modern than its plot. Treating of the U.N.-and of Katharine Cornell as a U.S. delegate with proposals for enlarging "areas of agreement" between nations-the play fitfully eyes a serious theme. But it is oftener a mere yarn that suspends seriousness in favor of suspense. The U.N.'s Czech delegate, who in happier days had been Delegate Cornell's lover, calls, out of confused personal emotions, at her house and promptly dies of a heart attack. Were the fact...
Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...
...Bradford Smith's Captain John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson...