Word: quails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great. Once, the House of Morgan dealt only with the biggest customers, selected with great care, as if they were being privileged to join an exclusive club. The Morgan Guaranty still deals primarily with big customers, but it hunts them with all the relish of a pointer after quail. Alexander has 70 bright young men, his "bird dogs," who spend all their time hustling up new customers, keep them happy with everything from new or better ways to use their money to getting them theater tickets...
...gone with Mrs. Herter to catch a few days' secluded rest before taking over as Secretary of State. In bygone days at the 12,000-acre retreat (owned by Mrs. Herter's family, and called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with...
...unemployment to report in 60 days) and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (President Eisenhower, "the kindly Kansan, has unwittingly become the captive of hard-faced men"). The U.A.W.'s Reuther, in a high-pitched, rhythmic singsong? pulled out all the stops, deriding Eisenhower for playing golf and quail hunting in Georgia, and conjuring up the memory of the good old days of World War II, when everybody was working overtime: "If we can have full employment and full production making the weapons of war and destruction, why can't we have full employment and full production making...
...shot back Reuther. He was ready even on a tropical isle with a press release: "Mr. President, I have spent no time on the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico, nor have I been with you and your big business friends on the golf course, the duck blinds or the quail hunts." George Meany, not the thin-skinned sort, tossed off a variation on an old pun: "I haven't seen any of the habitués of the sunny beaches, or the sons of habitues...
...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 for an initial $170 million (23 planes) Navy contract...