Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scripps-Howard chain: The key factor, we think, is productivity. If, as Reuther contends, this modified version of his original proposal will encourage stability in the auto industry, then there is no ground for skepticism. But if it is turned into a device by which workers get paid for not working, the economic consequences could be disastrous for workers as well as employers...
...chauffeur not to switch off the gas, for I'll be back in a few minutes." A hater of demagogy, and himself a poor orator, he has a first-rate legal mind and is an able negotiator. In interviews a tense and nervous man. he is a chain cigarette smoker and an incessant coffee drinker...
...defense budget, the biggest share (42? of every $1) was assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force. Part of the appropriation will be spent to build and man more Canada-U.S. radar stations in the Far North. One radar network, the Pinetree Chain, is already in operation, and two more are being built this year. The balance of the air force's budget will be used to make the R.C.A.F. the nation's biggest service, with 41 squadrons (2,845 planes) and a regular strength of 51,000 v. 49,000 in the army...
Giacometti plunged into an era of strange experimentation. Friends stopping by his studio found him working 48 hours at a stretch, chain-smoking and muttering as he danced and lunged with a penknife before a hardened clay block. Some of his works took on weird, elongated shapes; others were heads little larger than peanuts. Giacometti insists that he did not try to do it that way; it simply happened. "I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle. "There...
POTATO PANIC on the New York Mercantile Exchange a fortnight ago (TIME, June 13) was the result of an attempt to manipulate prices, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. Agriculture charges that Winn & Lovett Grocery Co., a big southern retail chain (200 stores in five states), tried to force prices down by circulating "false, misleading or knowingly inaccurate reports," and that the company sold 1,003 car lots of May potato futures "with knowledge of the fact that they did not have and would be unable to obtain potatoes to deliver...