Word: bethe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel, went to Brazil's Irene Santos. Georgia's Myrtle Davis was tied with...
They base their conclusion on experience. Dr. Paul Friedman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital and Dr. Louis Linn of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital were aboard the lie de France on the night of July 25, 1956, when the Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria. As several hundred survivors were brought onto the lie, the psychiatrists spoke to them and noted their psychological condition. Reporting their findings last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Drs. Friedman and Linn noted that the "women and children first" principle brought "some poignant and . . . tragic separations," added that the "principle...
Grace drove other men as hard as he drove himself. He sent out photos of himself to his plant managers, autographed: "Always More Production." He pushed Beth Steel's famous incentive plan by which workmen were carefully graded on their output, and the top producers were promoted to bonus-paying jobs...
When World War II came, Grace went to work furiously as usual. Beth Steel became one of the top U.S. war contractors, turned out 73 million tons of steel, built 1,127 ships, repaired or overhauled 37,000 others. More than any other civilians, Grace and his lieutenant, Arthur Homer, got the credit for building a two-ocean navy...
...list. But stockholders felt that he had earned it. During his 41-year regime Grace boosted Bethlehem's capacity from 1,000,000 tons to 20 million tons a year, recently started a $300 million expansion that will add another 3,000,000 tons. As he stepped down, Beth Steel was in glowing health. While other makers operated at about 80% capacity, Bethlehem was pouring 91%. And for the first nine months, the company announced last week, Beth Steel's sales hit a record $2,002,000,000 while earnings also reached a new peak of $144 million...