Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yorker abroad, have just read your Jan. 12 article about Teamsters Feinstein and Hoffa's threat to force New York's finest into the union. If Police Commissioner Kennedy and Mayor Wagner would instruct their "finest" to pay a little "finer" attention to teamsters' traffic violations, I am sure this grandiose plan would fade very quickly. New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases. Just let them get the same measure of tickets the average private New York driver is presented with - often unreasonably...
...matter of course, he made the Porcellian Club. Summers he traveled abroad, became expert at living like a first-class passenger on a third-class ticket. On one voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed...
Some hard-hit industries were naturally taking more time than others to climb back to pre-recession levels. Yet even in oils, still beset by political troubles abroad and price problems at home, the fourth-quarter pickup was strong enough to cause Chairman K. S. Adams of Phillips Petroleum to predict: "If present trends continue, both gross and net income in 1959 will be the highest in the company's history...
Evil Days. When it was called Massey-Harris, the firm captured a major, market in the late 1930s by coming out with the first self-propelled combine, began manufacturing tractors abroad after World War II, just in time to cash in on rising worldwide demand. But by 1956, poor management, complacency and half-hearted selling had put it far behind competitors. As sales fell, inventories rose so high that it just about ran out of cash...
Like other observers. Levine sees the slow growth of a Soviet middle class "more concerned with retention of what it has than with revolution abroad.'' These Communist bourgeois hunger "for contacts with the outside world, for more goods, for a measure of self-expression," and he believes they will act as a brake on "adventurist Soviet policies...