Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left in 1936), became president of United. Instead of dissolving United, as it had done to 73 other public-utility holding companies, under the "death sentence" law, SEC spared the company. Other top United executives who were once SECmen: Vice President E. Carey Kennedy, former SEC analyst; Edward Roll, also an SEC analyst, now assistant to United's president; Harry G. Slater, who switched from chief counsel of SEC's public-utilities division to assistant general counsel of United's top subsidiary, Niagara Mohawk Power Co.; John J. Burns, counsel to SEC, who now has the same...
...skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...
...couple of calls of his own, put detectives on the case. Such bootlegging could cost Columbia thousands of dollars a week-and in the fairly short time that 40-year-old Mitchell William Miller has been working for the company, he has brilliantly specialized in making the money roll in, not letting it slip away. In just 18 months, his guesses and general savvy have upped Columbia's pop record sales more than 60%, pushed Columbia's label high on bestseller lists. Last week's Variety rating: of the top ten recordings listed, five were Columbia...
...Washington rumor that will not down bobbed up again last week, with a new twist and from a new source. Secretary of State Acheson will quit before Oct. 1 on the wave of acclaim that is expected to roll out of the Korean truce and the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, reported the pro-Acheson New York Post. Reported successor: W. Averell Harriman, who is getting his buildup for the job in Iran. The White House put out its usual comment: "Nothing to it." But on Capitol Hill many top Democrats continue to think that Dean Acheson will...
...under a full head of steam. Five cars were hooked on to one engine, two on to the other; in addition, the locomotives carried 300 sticks of dynamite garnished with 30 Ibs. of black powder. Portentously, [rom about a fifth of a mile apart, the panting engines began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed. A few seconds later the canyon rocks reverberated with a thunderous blast as the iron horses collided headon. Scrap iron hurtled against...