Word: answers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubles with the Khambas, who recognized the spiritual rule of the Dalai Lama but had a habit of killing his tax gatherers and robbing caravans. The God-King solved it neatly: he sent a message to the Khambas saying cryptically that "bloodshed was not the answer," but flatly refused to lend Tibetan troops on a punitive expedition...
What got everybody burned up for fair was Ava's refusal to show up at two scheduled press conferences; then she irritated photographers by rarely appearing in public without a newspaper or purse to hide her pretty face. In answer, the papers served up juicy stories of a roaring party in Melbourne, Ava's bitter argument over her hotel room: it was newly decorated, but she insisted that it be done again with expensive English wallpaper. So sore was the Melbourne Truth (circ. 120.000) that it printed a shot of Ava emerging from the surf bedraggled and clutching...
...greeting him at the airport, threatened (his weight: 140 Ibs.) a photographer at the Melbourne Stadium, where he appeared: "Take another picture and I'll ram that camera down your throat. You stink." Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "Frankie plays hard to get-but who wants him?" The answer, obviously, was Ava; she haunted his dressing room at the stadium, a front-row seat when he sang "Why not take all of me?" and his suite at his hotel. But bodyguards were always outside to intimidate rubbernecks. When Frankie flew into Sydney, some 1,000 fans turned...
...nearly all other industrial groups in recent years. Steel wages are now 38% above the average for all manufacturing, compared to 20% above in 1953; they average $3.03 an hour v. $2.19 for manufacturing workers generally. Well aware that steel profits will be fat, the steelmakers tried to answer in advance any union claim that these are due to labor's increased productivity alone, said better productivity is due also to new plants, research, etc. Therefore, "consumers and stockholders, as well as employees are entitled to consideration...
...Federal Power Commission set out eleven years ago to regulate the nation's 3,000-odd independent natural gas producing companies (those not owning their own pipelines), a battle has raged over the question: What is a fair profit for independents? Last week the FPC finally had an answer. In a test case involving the Phillips Petroleum Co. of Bartlesville, Okla., FPC Presiding Examiner Joseph Zwerdling recommended that Phillips be permitted a 9.25% return on its investment. The rate was a compromise between the 18% return asked by Phillips and the 6% return that FPC has been allowing integrated...