Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote against foreign aid in any form, last week only 26 of the 152 G.O.P. members stood in opposition. Charlie Halleck had an explanation for the remarkable showing: "They're beginning to have a feeling of better liaison with the White House. It makes them want to go along...
...well-in which there is neither a hero nor a villain in the traditional sense, but only a man, containing both Good and Evil, taking up the burden of his life and his times. In such stories the myth seems to discover what it may have been seeking all along: a way of rising above itself. The myth is transcended in the individual, the free man. In the freedom of the great plains the story of the West had its beginnings; in the freedom of the heart it seems to seek its end. In its finest expressions...
...much of the auto industry overtime pay was the rule. Ford's Ford Division was operating six days at five assembly plants. So was the Lincoln-Thunderbird unit, along with Studebaker-Packard and American Motors. George Romney's Ramblers set another production record: 8,550 cars turned out on the way up to a programed rate of 8,850. Still catching up from the effects of a strike-caused glass shortage, Plymouth was on a six-day week at the Detroit, Newark, Del. and Los Angeles assembly plants...
...determined by a short, pert, alert woman who is one of the U.S.'s most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear in pirated cheaper models; many a U.S. housewife will wear a Sally Victor design this...
...also raised some eyebrows. In 1941 Chesler turned up as a crown witness in a case involving illegal sales of Canadian government bonds. Actually, Chesler and his firm had been ordered by the Bank of Canada to play along with the hanky-panky to trap the villain...