Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plainly disquieting to Argentina labor, which now feared a drive to freeze wages and raise lagging productivity. Toward week's end, leaders of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), once a major bulwark for Peron and currently embroiled in a power struggle with rival labor chiefs, threatened to call a general strike. But Lonardi met the challenge head on. He suspended every union official in the country, empowered army officers to organize and run off union elections for 120 days hence. The strike threat petered...
...under pressure straining to do the best job they could, and making mistakes. J. S. McDonnell, president of St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., testified that the Demon was originally a 22,000-lb., short-range interceptor. By early 1951 the Navy, engaged in Korea, sent a hurry-up call for something to meet the MIG on a fairly even basis. It wanted to redesign the plane, change it from the short-range to a mediumrange, all-weather fighter. This meant adding 7,000 Ibs. to the plane's weight...
Cameron Hawley (Executive Suite) has fashioned the better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...
Sour Grapevine. In his $1,000-a-month hotel suite, Cash can afford to be philosophical about what the sour grapevine calls him. "We have a peculiar national attitude toward money-making," he tells an acquaintance. "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...
...Getter. In Rio de Janeiro, an ad appeared in the classified-section of the English-language daily, the Brazil Herald: "Girl wants part-time job where she can sleep, please call...