Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week T.W.A. Board Chairman T. B. Wilson resigned. In the airline's offices, higher-ups were quoting odds that Frye would soon follow suit. No one had more cause to worry than Lockheed. T.W.A. has put in a big order for Lockheed's new Constellation 649, under a contract which binds Lockheed to offer the first 18 of them to T.W.A. But T.W.A. can refuse the planes, one by one. Thus Lockheed is bound to sweat commercial blood as long as T.W.A.'s troubles continue...
...needed now was a president. Most likely choice: Wilson McCarthy. As president, one of McCarthy's first tasks will be to smooth over relations with MOP in which Alleghany Corp.'s spectacular Robert R. Young has a big interest. Bob Young now has his hands full trying to take over the New York Central, merge it with his Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, Feb. 3). But he has his eye on a vast transcontinental empire. If he can get MOP out of receivership-and take over control in the process-his next westward step might well be a deal with...
Highjump--Tie for first between Barwise (St. Mark's), and Spiegelberg (R.I.); tie for third between P. Garland (H), and Wilson (Brown. Height--six feet...
...lecture bookings which would bring him in at least $40,000. His book on liberalism, The Shore Dimly Seen, was selling almost as well as Memoirs of Hecate County, Edmund Wilson's book .on sex, had sold. Chaotic Georgia held nothing more for him at the moment. So he had struck out for other shores...
...wrestling summary: 121-pound--Waddell (H) defeated Lee (fall); 128-pound--Evans (E) defeated Westfall (decision); 136-pound--Adams (E) defeated Perry (decision); 145-pound--White (E) defeated Currier (decision); 155-pound Loomis (E) defeated Cassady (decision); 165-pound Jones (H) defeated Wilson (decision); 175-pound--Rogers (H) defeated Rohr (decision); Unlimited--Houston (H) defeated Fallon (fall...