Word: broadloom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transatlantic Tribute. "The time has clearly come," said New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges, the Mr. Conservative of the U.S. Senate, "to be less concerned with the depth of pile on the new broadloom rug or the height of the tail fin on the new car and to be more prepared to shed blood, sweat and tears." It was true, as some scientists said, that the U.S., with an all-out effort, probably could have fired its own satellite by now. (Last week Project Vanguard put its 72-ft. TV2 launching rocket-see cut-through the third in a series...
...have the feeling that your writer is talking about someone else part of the time . . . The fellow you describe sounds a bit more like a character out of Mickey Spillane's "masterpieces." Somewhere beneath the literary imagination of your writer and above the "brogues gleaming richly on the broadloom" must exist a very competent individual composed of an uncommon amount of just plain Bill...
...those letters now, Miss Moller." The voice is hard, too, even sexy in a nasal way. Holden flips a Parliament into the corner of his mouth. "Marty? Shoot." Miss Moller brings the letters. Holden stands up suddenly and paces the floor, still listening. His brogues gleam richly on the broadloom, his tie is tensed into a merciless Yale knot. "Yeah, boy. Versteh. Versteh." He sits down, props the phone with his left shoulder, reads the letters with fierce concentration, signs them. Miss Moller leaves the room. "You do that, Marty. Yeah. Get back to me Monday...
...story begins with the death of Avery Bullard, a big Pennsylvania furniture manufacturer, and turns on the problem of who will get his job. Five vice-presidents circle each other like pinstriped tigers on the broadloom of the executive suite. Comptroller Fredric March quickly moves to the inside track. An office politician of the know-the-other-fellow's-weakness variety, he buys the vote of Board Member Louis Calhern with the promise of a stock gift, lines up Paul Douglas (Sales) by showing how much he knows about something he shouldn't (Shelley Winters...