Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the Fed's move was justified was loudly disputed. Certain congressional Democrats lined up against the rate hike. "Extraordinary." said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. "An awful thing," said Chairman Wright Patman of the House Small Business Committee, who issued a new call for a sweeping inquiry into federal fiscal and monetary policies. The Fed's move, said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "represents a further tight-money dampener to economic recovery, while 6% of the labor force is still unemployed, and about 20% of productive capacity is idle...
Burke accepted the idea, got news of the fifth cable break, and checked out his plan with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune...
...brass-spangled parade ground of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio one day last week, a burly, handsome, four-star general stepped forward to face General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff. Moments later, General Edwin W. Rawlings was sporting a new piece of hardware on his chest: a first oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal. With this parting gift, Ed Rawlings officially concluded 30 years of extraordinary service to the Air Force, went on his way at a youthful 54 to a civilian job as director and financial vice president of General Mills. Left...
...This is the first year in which the Yardling has kept up the format of a magazine and not folded," commented Business Manager William O. Wright '62 The Yardling has folded during seven of the eight years since it began publication...
...Actors. He is an expert in gimmickry--indeed, the whole play is really a gimmick, a shell game with reality as the pea. Since he is only a clever intellectual prestidigitator, Pirandello may not deserve his exalted reputation as a dramatic master. But he is a strikingly individual play-wright, and in his way a brilliant one. Repertory Boston does right by him and us; it is up to us to do right by Repertory Boston. So go and see their production of Six Characters, if you have any taste for theatrical oddity. It's cheap, it's convenient...