Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Whitney M. Young Jr. died in Lagos, Nigeria, last March, the already depleted ranks of national civil rights leaders suffered a seemingly irreparable blow. Militant young blacks, scornful of older, more established organizations like Young's Urban League, have not produced a man with his skill as a persuasive negotiator and as a goad to whites who wield economic power. Last week the National Urban League announced the selection of a successor to Young who may well prove to be the bridge between black leaders of the past and black demands of the future. Vernon E. Jordan...
...fighter fell six to nine months behind schedule after a hydraulic-system failure caused the first prototype to crash last Dec. 30. Though company designers are convinced that the defect has been corrected, the plane has also been hampered by delays in development of its advanced-model Pratt & Whitney engine. An influential group of Congressmen has urged the Pentagon to scrap plans for any new fighters and concentrate instead on updating McDonnell-Douglas' widely acclaimed F-4 Phantom. At one point last week, reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken, the Navy's command was certain that Packard...
...Whitney M. Young Jr., D.H. (posthumous), former executive director of the National Urban League...
...back by 50% since the Rolls-Royce collapse; some would get jobs at the McDonnell Douglas plant in nearby Long Beach, where the DC-10 is being built. There would likely be more hiring by Boeing as well as McDonnell Douglas, and by their U.S. engine makers, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. Thus, while a failure of the L-1011 would cause unemployment to rise in parts of Southern California, it would create more jobs in other sorely pressed areas from Connecticut to Washington State...
...future. The Government would set a precedent of propping up a poorly managed company at the expense of its more efficient rivals, giving Lockheed and Rolls-Royce special competitive privileges in markets that may well be better -and more cheaply-served by McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney. By contending that Lockheed is too important to be allowed to fail as the result of a commercial project, the Government gives itself vast new powers to determine just which firms are "important" enough to survive. Should military contractors be given precedence over civilian companies? Should big firms be favored...