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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers the struggle to find a new president in a big corporation. Later, in Cash McCall, he attempts to explain the philosophy that drives men to seek wealth and power. Argues Hero McCall: "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise-the profit system-but when one of our citizens shows enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit we do our best to make him feel ashamed of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -BUSINESSMEN IN FICTION--: New Novels Reflect New Understanding | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Denver, tough-trading oilmen from every major company have been converging on the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to get in on one of the biggest oil rushes in U.S. history. The sellers: the Navajo Indians, who are fast learning to play what oilmen call "grunt and groan." As the bids for oil lands are announced, the tribesmen merely grunt, and as the prices soar higher, the oilmen groan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Treasure for the Tribes | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Call You. In Greensboro, N.C., Charles W. Craddock filed suit for $15,000 damages, claimed his dentist dropped a two-inch root-canal reamer down his throat, told him to "go home and forget about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Pioneers! In Tokyo, a few hours after 77 Japanese antarctic explorers steamed Poleward, each loaded with 700 pieces of equipment, the Maritime Safety Board got a hurry-up call, rushed the Coast Guard out to sea with each man's missing gear: coat hangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Line Squall. In Clawson, Mich., when a long-distance telephone operator failed to place his call fast enough, John J. Brokelmeyer told her: "Come and get this phone out of my house if you can't make it work," decided to do the job himself, ripped the apparatus from the wall, grabbed his shotgun, went outside, used three shots to disconnect the wires from a nearby telephone pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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