Word: relinquished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grand scale. For the last six months he has been short just $340 million, the money needed to pay for jet planes ordered for his TWA. Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA stock, would have had little trouble raising the money if he had been willing to relinquish his whimful one-man control of the airline. Long accustomed to dictating his own terms, Hughes refused. Wary bankers were equally stubborn. Last week, with time running...
...York Negroes the borough presidency is a prized possession-and one they do not intend to relinquish easily. In the early days of the Jack investigation, even Harlem's U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who once denounced him as "chief Uncle Tom on the Tammany plantation," expressed his faith in Jack's "integrity." But by last week Powell seemed less worried about what might happen to Jack. Said he: "I have absolute confidence that the New York Democratic Committee . . . will replace Mr. Jack with a Negro if he has to resign." And at week's end Tammany...
When he takes over the post, Crooks will relinquish his current position of director of Student Placement in the Faculty. His chief duty at the present is helping students with post-graduate plans...
...program and revamp the whole operation. All missile production, testing and launching will be brought into a new division, with headquarters shifted from Baltimore to Denver, where Martin produces the Titan. Denver's current boss, Howard W. ("Bucky") Merrill, will stay on as a Martin vice president, but relinquish top operational control of the Titan program to Bunker, who is moving to Denver...