Word: manfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing to test it. In the dawn light of the technological revolution, Piel clearly foresaw the rise of a new breed of technological man. It was his conviction that a magazine beamed at this burgeoning breed would grow right along with...
PROJECT MERCURY, which will rocket a man into space, will cost $100 million more than the $250 million that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration originally estimated. Increases are for more expensive capsules, boosters, and a bigger range of operations...
...executive vice president in 1955. ¶Russell C. Taylor, 55, was named president of ACF Industries, Inc., railroad-car maker, succeeding James F. Clark, 56, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Along with ACF Chairman William T. Taylor (no kin), Russell Taylor and Clark will form a three-man top-management team on which all will share responsibility in setting company policy. Taylor is leaving the American Can Co., where he was an executive-department vice president and director, to join...
Underwood, who was appointed 23 years ago by F.D.R. and is known as a tough man on the bench, disregarded the trustbusters' recommendations. He fined the companies $20,000 and the individuals $5,000, plus the jail sentences, saying: "In cases of this character a fine is not a sufficient deterring factor." When defense attorneys protested that the jailing was unheard of. Underwood snapped: "There always has to be a first time...
Exactly half a century ago, the New York Journal set out to protect the non-working girl, or U.S. heiress, from titled European fortune hunters. The newspaper printed a kind of form sheet of the international marital sweepstakes under the headings: American Heiress, Her Fortune. Man She Married. How He Treated Her. Samples...