Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bit discouraging to find . . . that Reuther won from Ford and G.M. the "principle" of the guaranteed annual wage . . . The controlling word is "guaranteed." The auto workers under the new contracts are guaranteed nothing . . . The only "guarantee" is that the companies will pay 5? per hour per worker into a jobless benefit fund. The benefits to the workers vary with the amount of money in the fund. If either company went through two straight years of heavy layoffs, by the end of that time there would probably be no benefits at all. Is that "guaranteed"? . . . The fact is that Reuther...
...Bret Harte short story. Franchot Tone and Teresa Wright starred in this tale of a hard-drinking newspaper editor and a high-minded Philadelphia schoolmarm who meet in a frontier town in 1885. The editor has a carefree habit of lying around drunk in the gutter a good bit of the time, and the schoolmarm, a fairly stuffy type, is tempted to go back to Philadelphia, especially when she is told that her editor friend has fathered an illegitimate child. The happy ending-which came as a mild shock to viewers who have been brought up on the strait-laced...
Confusion. Here, as recorded by Reporter Salisbury, the tour produced the neatest bit of confusion since Lou Costello asked Bud Abbott, "Who's on first?" The Met's American Gallery Curator Robert B. Hale explained to Molotov's interpreter, Oleg Troyanovsky, that The Flying Box was the work of 27-year-old John Hultberg (TIME, May 2), an "expressionist-abstractionist." The painter, Hale added, was once a guard at the Metropolitan. Troyanovsky translated to Molotov: "He was formerly of the avant-garde...
...demand quick passage of the new mining act. Said he: "There is no good reason why private firms, either Italian or foreign, should not carry out research with their own capital and at their own risk." As for E.N.I, itself, even the state authority seemed to be weakening a bit. Said Italy's Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, a steadfast Mattei supporter, at the closing session: "To realize these sources of wealth . . . asks the collaboration of all forces and all initiatives. The Italian government is hence pledged to friendly countries not to neglect exploitation of whatever resources exist in this...
...tourist-about-London: "So this was the London bobby!" . . . " 'I am present.' said Jacy happily, 'at the reopening of the Covent Garden Opera House in nineteen forty-six . . .' " Somewhere along the line, Jacy discovers that the secret of English greatness is "continuity." To do his bit for continuity, Jacy agrees to help the Floristers reopen the historic old family theater with a hands-across-the-sea play about Pocahontas and John Smith...