Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day across the Arab world Eisenhower was hailed as a hero. While the ambassadors of Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey made a special call at the State Department in Washington and thanked the U.S. for its support, U.S. ambassadors in the Middle East reported a friendliness they had never known before...
Across the snow-swept plains of below-zero Alberta, a grain farmer drove 75 miles to Calgary to place an overseas telephone call to Budapest. At the expense of the Calgary Herald, Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns...
Western Air Express (now Western Airlines), a pioneer airline, was flying radio-less Fokkers made of cloth and plywood between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Weather procedure before take-off was to call the next stop on the telephone and ask how the weather looked ahead. Often a field that had looked fine was socked in when the flight arrived or unexpectedly bad weather was encountered en route. "They had not considered," explains Rossby, "that weather may come from sideways...
...facts of special importance to their customers. They coach oil companies on whether they should evacuate their offshore drilling rigs in the path of a hurricane. Knowledge that evacuation is not necessary may save many thousands of dollars. Small business for the private weathermen is advising whether to call off outdoor fairs and parties. Big business is coaching insurance companies that issue policies against losses caused by the weather...
RETIRED WORKERS' benefits may be next big bargaining goal of U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, a follow-up to guaranteed-annual-wage, cost-of-living escalator clauses. U.A.W. has named 15 geriatrics experts to work out program. Committee will call for better medical care, housing for retired workers...