Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the price front last week inflationary puffs sent prices soaring. Crude oil rose 35? a barrel in Texas to a record $3.25, the first price hike in more than three years. Next day gasoline followed, with a 1? per gallon increase at the pump. As a result of a $40 million wage increase that went into effect Jan. 1 as part of last summer's steel contract, and the Government's refusal to approve fast tax write-offs for expansion, the steel industry posted price increases ranging from 1% on hot rolled strip to 5% on plate...
...barrel-chested, Odie Seagraves got the gambler's itch when he was barely 15, ran away from his father's farm in Corsicana, Texas to find a way to make the money flow faster. His qualifications, as his daughter later said, consisted only of "a lot of books, a lot of guts and a lot of ambition." Odie became a hotel broker, a man who lurks in hotel lobbies ready to spring out at a passing acquaintance with the magical whisper: "I've got a deal...
...answering the question, "But how make you gentles [i.e., fly larvae] to keep them?" the Arte says: "Of a piece of a beast's liver, hanged in some corner over a pot or little barrel, with a cross stick and the vessel half full of red clay; and as they wax big, they will fall into that troubled clay and so scour them that they will be ready at all times." On the same subject, Walton says: "You may breed and keep gentles thus: take a piece of beast's liver, and with a cross stick hang...
...increased only an estimated 1.7%. One trouble was strikes, which cost the U.S. 37 million man-days, the most since 1952. But mainly, the U.S. economy was simply outgrowing its labor force. Despite 900,000 new additions in 1956, industry was scraping the bottom of the labor barrel, was often forced to employ marginal-and yet highly paid-workers. In the long run, businessmen are sure they can solve the problems. They know that productivity rises unevenly, that money spent to increase efficiency takes time to show up in the statistics. Thus, they expect the huge spending...
Last week the Supreme Court, after taking its own hard look at the law, plugged up Barrel No. 2. The court ruled that-even in cases where the members are aware that their leaders are Com munists and have perjured themselves in filing affidavits-the NLRB cannot deny its services to the union membership. Principal reason, as outlined in a unanimous decision delivered by Associate Justice William O. Douglas: Congress intended to restrict the NLRB's role to getting the affidavits filed, left it to the Justice Department to examine their validity and exact penalties where required-but only...