Word: feathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut their fares and go after more business, and cited the example of the Central of Georgia, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific, which had boosted traffic by doing just that...
About ten percent of the University's Red Feather quota remains to be raised, Robert H. Haynes, chairman of the Harvard Unit of the Community Fund, reported yesterday...
With only one week of soliciting to go the Red Feather campaign goal for Harvard is still $10,000 short of its aim, Robert F. Haynes, chairman of the University division of the Community Fund disclosed last night...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, and varsity football captain Howard E. Houston '50, will step to the University Theater stage at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to help celebrate the "kick-off" of Cambridge's annual Red Feather campaign...
...airmen were not worried about the Brabazon; they thought it too big, slow' and expensive. But the Comet was a bird of a different feather and stood an excellent chance to cut into the transport market now dominated by U.S. planemakers. As one U.S. airman said: "America is going to have to produce something within one year. If the jets hold up to expectation, Comet will sweep the board...