Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House dining room of the Capitol one day last week, a youthful dark-haired man was having lunch when he heard the roll-call bell. He jammed the last quarter of his tuna sandwich into his mouth, gulped his coffee and hurried up to a gallery overhanging the Democratic side of the aisle. There, Michael Anthony Stepovich, 39, Alaska's first native-born Governor, watched intently as one by one the Congressmen below called out their votes. A few minutes later, the House passed the Alaska statehood bill. Stepovich glanced at his wife, sitting a few seats away...
...many executives but too few. It added new executives in production control, cost accounting and sales. "When do you add salesmen?" asks President Robert M. Stanley. "When you have more orders than you can fill, or when you don't have enough?" For similar reasons, cameramaker Bell & Howell this year tripled its ad and sales promotion budget to $600,000 for the second quarter as part of President Charles H. Percy's antirecession campaign, while Reynolds Metals is diversifying rapidly into new markets for aluminum swimming pools, auto parts, boats and tin cans. "We had all these programs...
Seniors from Lowell included W. French Anderson, Jerry A. Bell, Henry R. Breck, James A. Burke, R. D. Campbell Jr., Adam Clymer, David D. Hall, Thomas M. Harrington, Harvey A. Harris, Eric Martin, M. Donald MacLaren, Robert H. Neuman, William D. Popkin, Charles E. Rossi, George M. Rossman, David F. Silbert, and Arthur R. Steinberg...
...Britannica sold more than 3,000 sets at ?12 apiece, enough for Bell and Macfarquhar to plan a second edition. By 1777, when work started, Smellie had gone off (later to become a boozing buddy of Robert Burns), and the publishers replaced him with James Tytler, a scholar just as whiskyfied and twice as eccentric, being given to balloon ascensions. Editor Tytler stayed on the ground long enough to get out a ten-volume, 8,595-page encyclopedia...
...enterprising American publishing pirate named Thomas Dobson corrected these slights when the third edition began to come out in 1787. Rewriting sections offensive to the U.S., and omitting the word "Britannica" as well as the dedication to George III, he hijacked and printed Encyclopaedia articles as fast as Bell and Macfarquhar could put them out. Plagiarism plagued the Britannica until passage by Congress of the international copyright...