Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General LeMay was thinking of Boeing's swept-wing 707 as a rival for Britain's Comet jetliners as well as a flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million...
...begins when Bogart starts to hustle Jennifer, while Gina bares some exciting intentions to her rival's husband. The four villains watch this game of amatory cat's cradle with alarm, and soon read into it a counterplot to deactivate the uranium deal. On the way to Africa, they decide to cash in the counterfeit count because he has sniffed out their game; but the ship opportunely starts to sink, the victim disappears overboard, and the seven survivors reach shore only to be seized as spies by the Arabs. In the end, the fourflushing foursome are clapped...
...Bill Langer has no such hold. He was outraged when President Eisenhower appointed his old rival, ex-Governor Fred Aandahl, as Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He has been trying without success to get two of his followers appointed to the federal bench; the Justice Department does not think his men are qualified. Last week Langer blew up again when the Administration announced the nomination of four North Dakota postmasters. Three of the four, as it happens, are Langer followers, Non-Partisan Leaguers. But that was not enough. Langer bawled that he was not consulted in advance about the appointments...
...rival union, the C.I.O.'s Inter national Union of Electrical Workers (I.U.E.) has repeatedly charged that the Communist-dominated U.E. is a menace to national defense and that the company has favored the Red-led union...
...bright-colored court scenes in which a magician conjures up events to come; there is a high-mannered court practicing the flatteries and-deceits that Ondine cries out against; in Mel Ferrer, there is a handsome knight for her to love; in Marian Seldes, a finely haughty rival whose hopes she dashes...