Word: straighten
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...Benjamin tried another railroad on the big island of Hawaii. This one was indeed a folly, wound up putting the Dillinghams $4,000,000 in debt-a bigger deficit than the entire Territory of Hawaii had at the time. Walter was called home from Harvard in 1900 to help straighten out the mess, and when Benjamin's health failed, he took over the business...
...Cuban in charge. The Russians are well aware that there is no romance left in Castro's revolution; and they are relentlessly pushing the Cubans to get to work. Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Alexeev has told friends: "Let's give the Cubans three or four years to straighten...
...President Kennedy's recent warning that this fact has begun to pinch U.S. exports did the Government start to do something about it. Last week, heeding Kennedy's call for "corrective action," both the Commerce Department and the Federal Maritime Commission began putting pressure on shippers to straighten out rates...
...movie with glittering new hardware (B-52s instead of B-47s) and a dull old theme: "Will SACcess spoil Rock Hudson?" Rock is an Air Force colonel assigned to command a SAC Wing that has just flunked its Operational Readiness Inspection. His job is to make the Wing straighten up and fly right, and he works brutally hard at the job - with the in evitable domestic complications. His wife (Mary Peach), who feels with some reason that her fuselage is more interesting than a B-52's, chews him out for spending too much time...
...that American citizens cannot deal with the Red Chinese; it all had to be replaced with substitutes. In London the automatic-elevator doors closed so fast, the telephones worked so sporadically and the Muzak system sometimes shrieked so loudly that Hilton had to dispatch experts from the U.S. to straighten things out. The air-conditioning failed in one of the New York Hilton's kitchens, driving the heat up so high that it set off the fire sprinklers and drenched the chef and the food. Someone discovered that the automatic billing system liked to drop decimals after one guest...