Word: waited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Powers has replied in kind. Collins, he said, was "a disciple" of the insurance companies against the interests of the "working man." In the Senate, said Powers, "not a day went by when we didn't have to hold up a rollcall to wait for him to come from trying cases against the working man and woman before the industrial accidents board." To this charge of "perfidy," Collins said he had never tried such cases, and, on the subject of labor, that his opponent was vice-president of a non-union wholesale food supply house...
...ballots could not be opened without a court order. DeGuglielmo said earlier that the Commission need not follow his specific suggestions, but unless it took some constructive measures to investigate the allegations, he might seek an immediate writ of mandamus against the Commission. He added he would not wait until Monday, when the City Council has its regular meeting...
Many carriers who must wait their turn on jet-production lines are anxious to hold off until they receive their planes and are ready to compete. Both Alitalia and Japan Air Lines, which get their first jets next spring, do not want to lower fares or lift surcharges on jet flights (first class: $30 to Japan, $20 to Europe) in their areas immediately. Says one Japan Air Lines man: "We'll cut when we have our own jets, and that's the position of any airline without jets...
Last week Gossage was lolling in a manor house south of Dublin, writing a book on advertising, paying social calls on Prime Minister Sean Lemass, and casting about for new clients for the W. & G. kooky jar. "We never solicit business," straight-faces Joe Weiner from San Francisco, "we wait for business." But he was not laying odds that another large chunk of the Green would not come under the spell of Adopted Leprechaun Gossage...
...Roston, there is no Harvard for Hyman Kaplan; not until the Fuller Construction Company leaves Quincy House's transient guest suite. Kaplan's motto is, "always go high." Maybe he'd best wait for the Leverett Towers...