Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit. Every three months, like clockwork, I get sent out-like a quarterly dividend." This was the TV story of Walter Slezak, playing a retired furrier from Manhattan, whose bumbling social presence made his daughters uncomfortable and embarrassed their husbands. Visiting son-in-law No. 4, an ambitious Hollywood agent, Slezak lumberingly wrecked a cocktail party by commenting amiably on a guest's mink ("Say, that's a nice mutation you got there; it's not what you'd call real mink, but I wouldn't worry about...
...used it as a sealant for aircraft-carrier decks, pipelines, and the wing tanks of planes (the average commercial plane today carries about 300 Ibs. of Thiokol sealants). Then in 1946 Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on a radically new solid rocket fuel, tried mixing an oxidizing agent with rubber. But it had trouble combining the oxidizer with solid rubber, tried liquid Thiokol by happenstance (a Shell Oil Co. salesman recommended it to a Jet Propulsion lab technician). When Thiokol's management found out what was going on, it decided to try producing Thiokol-based solid fuels...
...involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie and TV rights, of which the publisher would ordinarily take 10%. Moreover. Wilson's income will be spaced out for tax purposes "at $25,000 a year or better." This. Author...
RUSSIAN TRAVEL BOOM will attract some 4,000 Americans to U.S.S.R. this year (v. 2,500 in 1957), and Russians plan to send first large tourist parties to U.S. American Express will open Moscow office, station first full-time U.S. travel agent there since World...
City, Mich., Douglas Waddell, 50, had a falling out with the mayor, resigned as city superintendent, clerk, treasurer, purchasing agent, board of appeals secretary, planning commission member, street administrator, pension board secretary-treasurer and representative on the county sanitation authority...