Word: whit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets of $9,000,000 in his holster, it looked as if Silberstein had taken another big step towards his an nounced goal of making Penn-Texas one of the biggest U.S. corporations...
...believe that God meant us to find the atom. Admittedly, we are wrestling with the greatest alteration in man's relation with Nature since the upheaval at the time of the Garden of Eden. But his fundamental relation with God has not changed one whit. The same trial that tested the first man in Eden, and every man since, challenges us in the atomic problem. It is the exercise of choice, the dangerous freedom to use God-given power for good or ill. I do not mean for a moment that science is wrong, but only...
...kicking other young punks who are down and unarmed. The amazing thing is that the writers, actors, and director are so skillful that one doesn't at all mind these breaches of horse opera etiquette. In fact, it would kill the picture's charm if the heroes were a whit less disposed to prove their toughness...
Harrington's group will meet with Whit lock early next week to decide definitely when the plan will go into operation. "We would like to try the plan on an experimental basis this spring so that it will operate efficiently next fall," Harrington said...
...However, if the committee and Mr. Whit lock feel that it is too late in the year for an advising system to prove worthwhile, we will wait until next year. In any event, the plan will definitely go into operation next fall," he said...