Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth brother Frank, a mathematician, all-round athlete, footballer and rifle shot. "Lovable, affectionate, happy and gentle." Frank had no time to ripen for anything but slaughter. In a letter marked "Not to be delivered till after my death," Frank bade his parents a cheerful farewell -"the parting will not be for long. Merely for an infinitesimal space of time out of eternity." He was killed at 22, three months after joining the Gloucester Regiment at the front in France...
...headed by Murchison and the other by Manhattan Machine-Tool Maker Frederick W. Richmond. For some $9,000,000 cash, Richmond will buy up Follansbee's steelmaking plants, warehouses and inventories, continue to operate the company. Follansbee's corporate shell (with $9,000,000 in the till and no plants) will then merge with two profitable Murchison firms: Chicago's Consumers Co. (concrete) and Frontier Chemical Co. (chlorine, caustic soda) of Wichita, Kans. Follansbee stockholders, whose stock will be worth $20 a share after selling their plants, may exchange it for stock in the new merged Murchison...
...Communists have won in Indo-China, and it is time we woke up . . . Why does our Government lull us with lowered taxes, business-as-usual talk? What we need is to arm and to make ready. We should tax till it hurts. Develop our military. Enact the universal military service legislation. President Eisenhower is a great military leader. What is stopping him from advising Congress and the people of the danger and of the necessary steps to be taken...
...Black. Next night there was another big concert in the Casino with a few other name combos (e.g., Pianists George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Lennie Tristano) plus informal sessions that lasted till dawn. In the afternoon a slim crowd of cats had attended a forum about the origin and meaning of jazz. But the meaning of the festival itself seemed to be that jazz-whether Dixieland, bop or "modern"-more than ever has America's ear. The festival wound up tidily in the black...
...finance both deals, Burlington had some $50 million in cash and Government bonds in its till. By the two purchases, Burlington's sales (including those of the controlled companies) will be well above $400 million a year, thus putting it ahead of J. P. Stevens and making it the biggest textile manufacturer in the country. Burlington will, for the present, operate both Pacific and Goodall-Sanford under their own names...