Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as pleasing to the airlines as this public response is that they have put the jets in the air with less trouble than they have had with many a prop plane. Says Sam Miller, Pan American's Atlantic Division chief pilot, who has made 82 crossings in the 707: "This plane has had fewer mechanical problems than any other new plane in the postwar era." The adjustments of the plane's shakedown period have inevitably led to delayed flights and late arrivals. But the grind on passengers' nerves has not been so much the fault...
Blough, hired by White & Case, got his first big chance when the New Deal's Temporary National Economic Committee launched a congressional study, which was a veiled attack on Big Business. Blough was put in charge of a task force of 20 lawyers to make Big Steel's case, did so well that, at 38, he was named general solicitor for U.S. Steel itself...
...radios, 800,000 transistors, and 1,000,000 vacuum tubes annually for International General Electric, to be resold under the I.G.E. name in Europe, Asia and Africa. I.G.E. was the second major U.S. electronics company to decide to make a deal this year with the Japanese. In April Motorola put on sale in the U.S. a $29.95 shirt-pocket-size transistor radio with most of its parts made in Japan. Among the Japanese parts: a tuning device so small that no U.S. electronics concern has yet been able to mass-produce it. Last week Motorola said the tiny portable...
...faced strong opposition against variable annuities from top-ranking Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the New York Stock Exchange and mutual funds. They charged that the new policies will change the traditional insurance concept of providing a fixed return on investments. and will put insurance companies in the securities business...
...also helped found the American Legion. Like T.R., he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy-but where T.R. had used the job at century's turn to build up the fleet, Ted, in normalcy 1921-24, had to preside over disarmament negotiations. And when, in 1924, Ted put on a 15-speech -a-day campaign with the same energy his father had shown as G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, he was forced out of T.R.'s footsteps decisively. Reason: his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, held the sidewalks of New York City solid to beat...