Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temper, eager Engineer Murphree lives quietly with his wife in suburban Summit. N.J. He relaxes by listening to records on a hi-fi set he assembled and installed himself, and by playing 16-handicap golf. Fellow golfers say he could trim strokes off his score if he would only quit experimenting with new theories on how to improve his game...
...first big break came in midafternoon. Driven too hard in an effort to push the leader, Moss's Aston Martin quit, its gearbox a wreck. The race settled down to a duel between Hawthorn and Fangio. But after seven hours, Hawthorn's Jag began to lag. Desperately its mechs labored in the pits, but they took too long. Fangio got the lead for keeps, and during the final five hours gave a demonstration of an old master at work...
...other companies, which produce 69% of the nation's steel, are well aware of the difficulties of raising expansion capital, he said, but "unfortunately their influence in the direction of steel industry policies is a minority one." Weir called on steel management "to quit being behind and show real leadership. The real fact is that the earnings of the steel industry are not equal to its financial necessities. In the final analysis our country must have steel and no excuse will be taken...
...from his military government post to visit wartime Dutch friends who ran a wholesale food business, got the idea that I he could do business with the Dutch. As his friends' agent, he landed his first U.S. Army contract-for $1,000,000 worth of : fresh eggs. He quit his job and went into ; the food business for himself...
...wrestled BOAC, Britain's state-owned airline, out of its postwar tail spin stepped away from the controls last week with a blast at "irksome political interference." After turning a 1948 loss of $30 million into a 1954 profit of $4,000,000, Sir Miles Thomas, 59, quit as BOAC chairman and chief executive...