Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During that first Furcolo campaign, O'Brien devised many of the campaign techniques that later became standard operating procedure for John Kennedy's state and national efforts. But 1946 was a Republican year, and Furcolo was defeated by a scant 3,295 votes. As soon as the returns were in, O'Brien went methodically to work on the 1948 campaign. And in the second Furcolo race, O'Brien brought in a winner, with a 15,000 plurality. In gratitude, Foster Furcolo asked O'Brien to come to Washington as his administrative assistant. Two years later...
Profits in Peace. There was scant chance that the Big Three would agree to profit sharing. Romney, growled Ford President John Dykstra, is "not going to write the contract for Ford Motor Co.'' But the American Motors settlement was bound to put pressure on the Big Three to improve their offer. It was doubtful that the Big Three and the union could reach agreement before the Aug. 31 deadline, and the U.A.W. has vowed that it will not work without a contract. Oddly enough, Labor Day, which falls only four days after the deadline, provides a special incentive...
...assignment is Jazz Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter). In the final, frenzied weeks before first night on Broadway, Kay must grind out not only the orchestrations for songs and dances, but the "bridges" between numbers, the entr'actes, and finally the overture, a chore Kay and associates sometimes finish scant hours before cur tain time. The job pays a top arranger anywhere from $10,000 to $16,000 a show...
...husky government subsidy, should hit break-even well short of 200. Even subsidies have not turned the trick for Britain's jet manufacturers. De Havilland, which led the world with the original, ill-starred Comet, has sold only 63 of the redesigned Comet IVs. has scant hope of reaching its estimated break-even point of 80-90 sales. Vickers, which hopes to have its long-range VC-io ready for delivery in 1963. is painfully aware that this is apt to be too late to break the 707's hold on the market...
Knowing when he was licked, Poulson last week conceded a scant three hours after the polls closed. Yorty's triumph changed a lot of California political equations. As mayor of Los Angeles, Sam Yorty's influence would have to be reckoned with. But how would he use that in fluence? Would he support Richard Nixon if Nixon were to run for Governor next year against Pat Brown? Or might he try to unseat Brown himself? Nobody knew, least of all Yorty. But one thing is certain: in one way or another. Mayor Sam Yorty will...