Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misanthropic Financier Howard Hughes, 55, and Trans World Airlines, the nation's third biggest air carrier, have long resembled those between a capricious master and a whip-shy dog. In the 17 years since he first gained control of TWA through his wholly owned (and vastly profitable) Hughes Tool Co., Hughes has run through five TWA presidents-some of whom he never bothered to meet-and has put the line through ever fancier financial paces. Last week, as sometimes happens, the baffled dog finally turned...
...into trouble with a $165 million financing plan to pay for jets. New York's Irving Trust Co. and Equitable Life finally agreed to lend TWA the money, but only on stringent conditions: Hughes was obliged to place the 78% of TWA's stock owned by Hughes Tool Co. under the control of a voting trust composed of former Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds, and Raymond M. Holliday, chief operating officer of Hughes Tool...
...Suiter. Undeterred by this rebuff, Hughes set about chivying President Charles Tillinghast, whom the trustees had put in to run TWA. On one occasion Hughes threatened to bring suit against the airline for ignoring his wishes. Last week, instead. TWA's management filed suit against Hughes. Hughes Tool Co. and Raymond Holliday for alleged violation of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. TWA's avowed hope: to win a court order obliging Hughes to get rid of all stock in TWA and to cease trying to exercise control over the line...
What's wrong with symbolism? It was a pretty good tool in the hands of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Nast and is today in Richard Q. Yardley's wonderful work [for the Baltimore...
Summing up, Adolf Eichmann said: "I have regret and condemnation for the extermination of the Jewish people, which was ordered by the German rulers, but I myself could not have done anything against it. I was a tool in the hands of the strong and powerful and in the hands of fate itself. . . Where there is no responsibility, there can be no guilt." Thus, finishing 70 hours of testimony, he closed up the last of the brown folders from which he had produced mountains of documents, blew his nose heartily and leaned back to receive the onslaught of cross-questioning...