Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rescue committee. Says Adams: "None of the other directors wanted the job because they'd lose their reputations if we went under. I, having no reputation to lose, said sure, this is a challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded the company in 1922 with the help of M.I.T.'s famed Scientist Vannevar Bush, retired as president, and Adams took over. Through Belmont Radio Corp., a Chicago subsidiary acquired...
Marthe Richard's reply to these words was a suit for 1,000,000 francs. Trim and neat in a smartly tailored grey suit, the 62-year-old reformer sat stiffly in court while a 30-year-old lawyer defended her virtue. "But this affair was a command," shouted the young man. "Besides, Von Krohn was 70 years old at the time." "You are very young, confrère" murmured the opposing lawyer suavely. "A man of 70 is not necessarily repulsive. Why, I myself...
Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge stood on a platform outside Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital this week to dedicate a new wing. Around him, admiring the creamy brick and the green marble trim of the Hughes Spalding Pavilion, was a mixed audience of whites and Negroes. With pride, the governor pointed to the excellence of the $1,850,000 building -as good as any of its kind in the U.S. Then Dixiecrat Talmadge, apostle of white supremacy, handed the building over to Dr. Benjamin Mays in behalf of his 200,000 fellow Negro citizens in the area...
Swooping Gondola. Last week the Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. unveiled a monstrous apparatus for studying the effect of G-forces on fragile human flesh. In a trim, museumlike building, a soft, cantilever arm whirls in a horizontal circle, carrying on its end a lens-shaped aluminum "gondola" where the helpless "airman" sits. The gondola can be tilted at any angle, directing the G-force in any direction through the passenger's body. Driven by a 4,000-h.p. motor, the arm can generate 15 Gs (much more than a man can stand) in less than...
...shrouded the cliffs of Dover one morning last week, an unseen foghorn moaned. As if summoned by the echoes, 178 sallow-faced workmen, each carrying a brown paper parcel or a battered cardboard suitcase, trudged along the quay of Dover Marine Station and straggled up the gangplank of a trim Belgian steamer, the S.S. Koenig Albert. The men were Italian miners, recruited to dig coal in fuel-hungry Britain; they were being sent away because British miners refused to work with foreigners (TIME, May 26). Most will find jobs in Belgian pits...