Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranch, arriving shortly before midnight. By next daybreak, reporters and cameramen had already begun to gather on the front lawn. At 7 a.m., Lyndon Johnson emerged, and conducted newsmen on a tour that included the house where he was born, his first school, and the family cemetery. On a vacant plot next to the graves of his grandparents, Johnson marked an "X" with his foot. "Sixty days ago," he said, "that's where I thought I was going...
...girls were forced to leave despite a Student Government plea last April that they receive priority on vacant rooms in their respective dormitories. Janet Green '58, formerly of Briggs, and Julie Decker '58, formerly of Moors, are the deposed representatives...
...handle the mailing and sale A.T.&T. leased one of Wanamaker's block-square vacant buildings in Manhattan, hired 1,240 temporary employees, set up a line of special desks and files a block long to handle the biggest "stock book" in history. It also set up a telephone room with 20 operators to handle 800 inquiries a day, opened information counters in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and New York to serve stockholders. Total cost of the operation...
...Westinghouse four years after he first went to work for the company. President Gwilym A. Price, the man who hired him, continues to hold on to the top spot for the present, but indicated the shape of things to come by also stepping into the post of board chairman, vacant since 1951. Cresap, a Harvard Business School graduate (by way of Williams College), was helping boss his own Chicago-New York management-advisory firm when Gwilym Price dropped in to ask for a survey of Westinghouse's efficiency. Cresap's report was such a hit that the company...
...confirmed by two twelve-year-old boys who had seen strange men carrying heavy cases into a vacant building. Detectives quietly swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...