Word: slipping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Even the slip that undid him had a familiar ring: the examiners found a notation of cash supposedly on hand: $719,000. They counted the money and found only $119,000. But they could not discover why Schlekat had stolen $600,000. There was no woman in the case, no racetrack gambling, no wild parties. Then the bank's former president, Charles C. Alter, described his own retirement to the examiners. A New Kensington real-estate man (now dead) had approached him four years ago on behalf of two "Ohio businessmen," H. A. McDevitt and J. H. McKeown...
...build conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets. In 1947, the first really topnotch Russian fighter, the jet MIG-15, appeared. It had a high rooster-like tail, a barrel-like fuselage, and an ancient radio antenna jutting out into the slip stream. But it had swept-back wings, quick visual proof that the Russians and their German experts had been delving deep into transsonic research. It was light and maneuverable and powered by the best existing jet engine, the Rolls-Royce Nene, which the British government sold to Russia...
...detectives on the case. Such bootlegging could cost Columbia thousands of dollars a week-and in the fairly short time that 40-year-old Mitchell William Miller has been working for the company, he has brilliantly specialized in making the money roll in, not letting it slip away. In just 18 months, his guesses and general savvy have upped Columbia's pop record sales more than 60%, pushed Columbia's label high on bestseller lists. Last week's Variety rating: of the top ten recordings listed, five were Columbia...
...extra-salary benefits; even President Charles M. White had been approached. But Lawyer Arthur Dean of Manhattan's top-drawer firm of Sullivan & Cromwell probed right to the heart of the matter. Unless companies can reward their executives by such devices as stock options, said Dean, they will slip away in increasing numbers to enter business for themselves. In many a U.S. community, hardworking dealers who own their own businesses are making more real income than the heads of companies whose products they sell...
Mossadeq sought to keep vague and veiled just what concessions he had made. But London let some of the terms slip. Mossadeq had insisted that the original Iranian oil nationalization law be accepted by the British in its general terms, without reservation; but he abandoned, temporarily at least, his insistence on the second law, which spells out in nine tough points exactly how nationalization is to be accomplished. Some of the points: Anglo-Iranian to be taken over "immediately"; Anglo-Iranian to pay Iran an extra sum for all the oil it took out of the ground after March...