Word: certain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees a yearly wage-and-fringe-benefit boost worth 11.25? an hour, only a quarter of a cent more than the last industry-wide offer. To the Kaiser company, the terms made special sense because of its special situation, which includes a $14-a-ton West Coast premium on certain steel shapes, a newer work force costing less for pension improvements...
...tryout towns from San Francisco to Boston, new shows were primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush...
Help from A.A. Du Font's model assault on the bottle problem was detailed by its assistant medical director, Dr. C. Anthony D'Alonzo, in The Drinking Problem (Gulf Publishing; $2.95). The company first looks for certain giveaway signs: "Frequent absenteeism (characteristically on Monday); a gradual and appreciable drop in efficiency; a change in general appearance and dress habits; frequent disappearances from work." Next, Du Pont medics approach the alcoholic sympathetically, tell him that the company views his alcohol problem as an illness, not unlike heart disease. The company then sends the drinker to its own psychiatrists...
...steel strike ends, industry will face a host of other problems. Companies that have exhausted their inventories will have to wait for new stock before they can resume production, even then will need several days to get their plants humming again. Moving ore to steel plants is almost certain to be a problem. The Great Lakes ore fleet, most of which is idled by the strike, has little more than a month left before the lakes freeze over, may not be able to supply enough iron ore to keep the mills operating until spring. Even if the steel firms decide...
...first half, the varsity could not launch a sustained offense, and the two teams sparred inconclusively up and down the field. The Crimson pressed harder during the third period, and really let loose with a fourth-quarter surge that seemed certain to break the scoreless deadlock...