Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...prevent war is to perfect and produce the kind of retaliatory weapons that could survive any attack and then go on to devastate the aggressor. That means that the U.S. will rely more and more on early warning systems, heavy and accurate firepower such as Strategic Air Command bombers and Atlases have today, and the maximum amount of invulnerability-such as the mobile Minuteman and the underwater Polaris will boast tomorrow...
...Bibby did not forget Bahrein. In 1953 he persuaded his director, Dr. Peter Glob, to lead an expedition there, with himself as second in command. During the first season they attacked the fascinating mounds. The burial chambers had been robbed, but the Danes still found gold and ivory ornaments. Then they turned to searching for the city where the dead in the graves had lived...
...reason for so many far-flung enterprises, explains O'Neil blithely, is that "I wanted enough diversification so that my sons wouldn't have to scrap with each other." Last week Board Chairman O'Neil shuffled General Tire's management, laid out new areas of command for his sons; he named Son Michael Gerald ("Jerry"), 38, to be General Tire's new president; Thomas Francis, 45, vice chairman of the board; John James, 42, chairman of the finance committee...
Bill's success in radio got father so interested that he bought the Yankee network, put hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Son Tom in command. (A football end at Holy Cross, Tom would have made All-America, says his coach, "if he didn't spend all his time trying to sell me rubber footballs.") In a series of deals, Tom picked up the 45-station Don Lee network on the West Coast, bought control of the Mutual Broadcasting System, consolidated the lot into General Teleradio. Stepping nimbly into television, he began syndicating old Hollywood movies...
...English, tried teaching after college but decided to get into advertising "because I developed a prejudice toward eating." He was hired at $50 a week by the George Batten Co. in 1928, just before its merger with Barton, Durstine & Osborn. His hard-slogging work habits and a slogan-making command of the language propelled him through BBDO's ranks as he worked on ad campaigns for Armstrong Cork, Servel, B. F. Goodrich and Cellophane. He became the agency's chief idea man in 1946, a member of the executive committee...