Word: shared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thach was barely big enough to lift a 12-gauge shotgun when his father taught him how to shoot. On his first hunting trip, says Thach, "I learned an astonishing fact: in any organization, even a two-man hunting party, each has a share of work to do." He learned other lessons that still serve him well. "Don't shoot at the bird," his father warned on early quail hunts. "Shoot where he's going...
...Last year Armstrong took a pay cut of almost 50% to go home to Utah and a $14,000-a-year job as director of the state's Road Commission. Utah was lucky to get him. Armstrong lifted Utah from 48th to 34th among states in getting its share of federal highway work under way, increased the amount of contracts let by Utah almost fivefold. Of his new $17,000-a-year federal assignment, Armstrong says: "This is a job of coordination and cooperation on a gigantic scale. We won't have to resort to any Russian methods...
...Sonnabend got ready, Curtiss-Wright, which had hoped to work the same kind of rescue operation for Studebaker, prepared to move out. Two years ago Curtiss-Wright got a management contract to run Studebaker, plus an option to buy 5,000,000 shares of stock at $5 a share (which runs out this November), plus the chance of merging Studebaker into Curtiss-Wright if it could cut Studebaker's huge losses. But Curtiss-Wright had no success. Fortnight ago Studebaker reported that its losses in the first six months of this year soared to $13,314,165, almost double...
...become a period classic, evoking for the middle-aged a dismal time of economic troubles, when sensitive men became angry about the near starvation of their near neighbors. Agee's book dealt with Southern sharecroppers in the U.S. Orwell's people had an even smaller share in any crop: they were the barely fed and scarcely tolerated unemployed of England. What Benjamin Disraeli called England's "two nations" had in the '30s bred a third - the untouchables of 20th century industrialism. Orwell, born a Brahmin, lived among them like a martyr...
Every Southerner, he feels, must share the guilt of collective injustice done the Negro from the days of slavery through the era of segregation. He admits that he himself bore this burden of guilt lightly till his wife's untimely death in 1933, an event that seemed so personally unfair that it shocked him into a generalized awareness of injustices. It did not make him a blind believer in reform. He quotes with tacit approval an uncle who said: "Ideals are a sin. We should love...