Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...86th Congress, the Republican minority in the House of Representatives-as well as the embattled Eisenhower Administration -will lean heavily upon the political talents of the new G.O.P. floor leader, hard-hitting Charlie Halleck, 58, of Rensselaer, Ind. (pop. 5,000). Hoosier state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer and twelve-year veteran as G.O.P...
...MISSILE cancellation by the Air Force also ends Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.'s contract for the J83 jet engine. Cutback will reduce Fairchild's sales by about $56 million in 1959, cause layoffs of 2,000 employees. Said Fairchild President James H. Carmichael: "The company has a rough sky ahead...
When Donald William Nyrop was elected president of Northwest Airlines in 1954, he figured that he was in for a rough ride. Northwest had a long history of woes with its planes, pilots, presidents (two chiefs in two years) and with Pan American World Airways, which was lobbying hard to bump Northwest off the lucrative Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run. By last week Don Nyrop, 46, had piloted Northwest through all those storms. In 1958, said Nyrop, the line's operating revenues climbed from $83.4 million to a record $101 million, and profits through November rose...
Even at the worst of the recession, there was no overall pattern of woe. New England, with its troubled textile industry and heavy manufacturing, was sorely tried. Many of the Midwest's one-industry towns had some rough months. In Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor is not just a barometer of business but the whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher...
...resources of this chorus are such that even when their singing is not perfect, it is of such high quality that one feels ungrateful in pointing out such faults as intonation problems and a rough tone here and there. The performance in general is so polished that a missed entrance or an orchestral flub is quickly overshadowed by an unexpectedly outstanding passage, such as in Gevaert's "Le Sommeil de L'enfant Jesus" when the chorus' exquisite pianissimo was breathtaking...