Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair originally meant the rendering of service without money payment a system under which young European girls agree to work for room and board in another country to learn the language. Such girls are seldom treated as ordinary domestics, usually eat and travel with the family they visit. Anne-Marie reportedly earned $100 a month with the Rockefellers...
...International Understanding, which will train any U.S. executive (and wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State Department officials. "Long overdue," said Republic Steel (and B.C.I.U. Policy Board) Chairman Charles M. White. "It could mean the end of the overseas misfit...
...constructing his corporate cat's cradle, Hearst paid so little attention to the ledger that in 1940 an economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit and let the influence...
...style), San Francisco at the time of the Barbary Coast (with earthquake), Florida bayous (with alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur, as the bulldozers prepared to break ground last week: "I have a feeling that history teachers all over the country will be grateful...
...fittings, last spring (TIME, May 11), employees braced for a shakeup. They were hardly prepared for what followed. Last week Crane announced the resignation of Norman F. Garrett, the fourth of its six vice presidents to go in three months. Five directors have resigned since Evans took over as board chairman, paring the board down to six men. Burly, rough-talking Evans, 48. has fired at least 2,000 of Crane's 18.000 employees, closed 50 of Crane's 130 branch outlets, sold eleven others...