Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Material Service Corp. in 1919 on a borrowed $10,000. By the time he sold the firm to General Dynamics in 1959-and became a key figure on the board-he had built M.S.C. into one of the world's largest sand and gravel companies. After Crown quit General Dynamics in 1966, many of Material Service's top executives departed in frustration at the way the company was being run. Upset, Crown quietly began buying blocks of General Dynamics common stock. By last May, he and friends had accumulated 18% of the shares for about $57 million...
Player-coach feelings have beenstrained on both teams. Four players, including the Quakers' most promising running back, quit the Penn team, while relations between coach John Yovicsin and quarterback Foster reportedly have not been good...
...team with the orange arm bands today will be Penn. There were a lot of rumblings when Penn football players realized that they were to be in Cambridge on Halloween. When four of them quit the squad two weeks ago, the three blacks denied that there had been racial conflicts. They did not deny, however, that they had quit so that they could stay in Philly on Halloween. Those who are still on the team reportedly came reluctantly...
...being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always been a staunch federalist, with little sympathy for those who place province over union-and less for those separates who want to quit the union altogether. Moreover, the government was said to have information that the terrorists' next step would be selective assassination of political leaders. Adding to the urgency was the knowledge that over the past year more than 2,000 lbs. of dynamite-9,000 sticks -had been stolen throughout...
Charlie Wong has operated a small laundry at 5 Mt. Auburn Street for 51 years. He also got his notice on October 2, telling him to "quit and deliver up at the end of the next month... the property you hold as my tenant." Like Salo, he has heard nothing else, has made no plans, and doesn't know what he's going...