Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisp with excitement and expectancy in the crowded Washington hearing room this week when the fact-finding panel appointed by President Eisenhower started its last-chance hearings in an effort to help get the steel strike settled. When the session ended 4½ hours later, Chairman George William Taylor was still showing the unflagging amiability and hopefulness of the professional mediator, but the excitement and expectancy in the audience had soured into disgust at both sides. The fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling...
Screening the Leyte landings were two great U S. fleets: the Seventh, attached to MacArthur under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid. and the Third, reporting to Admiral Chester Nimitz 5,000 miles away in Hawaii and carrying the flag of Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey...
...many jet-age problems facing the world airline industry, the most pressing is how to find enough passengers to fill all the expensive new planes that will soon be flying. At the 15th annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Tokyo last week, Director General Sir William P. Hildred posed the problem, and provided an obvious answer: "We shall have to feed progressively larger gobbets of traffic to these monsters or they will eat us up, capital...
Married. Kate Roosevelt, 23, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of California Congressman James Roosevelt and Betsy Gushing Roosevelt Whitney, adopted daughter of John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; and William Haddad, 31, crusading, prizewinning New York Post reporter; in Manhattan...
...William E. Schroeder, the designer, has used the freedom from literal representation given him by the author to create a set consisting only of black curtains, a door, a few steps in necessary places, and a large fire escape that provides the characters with a refuge from one another. It is a serviceable job, but the convention that the blacks aren't there is weakened by hanging a picture on them, and the impressive fire escape occasionally hides someone's face just when we want...