Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson (pop. 60,000) has never been a rich town. In the best times, most of its people make less than $3,500 a year. Its chief industries are automobile parts and railroading. There have been layoffs at the machine shops, some of them seasonal, some of them not. Then the New York Central laid off 450 all at one crack, part of 8,100 furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things...
Eisenhower's job and his title were temporary, but Harry Truman would like to have somebody permanently in the job. The President had once asked Congress to create a single, overall Chief of Staff. Congress, with plenty of urging from the apprehensive Navy, decided it would be too powerful a post for any military...
...chief weapon of the manufacturers is a little plumbline which hangs inside a small circle of wire; when the weight at the end is deflected enough to touch the circle it completes a circuit, and a polite little sign on the scoreboard says "Tilt," or in the case of one popular machine using a Western theme, "Yipee Tilt!" Even this device is often insufficient however. A veteran "fifty-mission-man" can hit the machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping...
Bill DeWitt had his reasons. Chief among them: the Browns own St. Louis' $1,200,000 Sportsman's Park (which they rent to the Cardinals for $35,000 a season) and a new $721,000 ballpark in San Antonio. Before anybody got impudent enough to ask whose money he used to buy the Browns, Bill firmly announced: "There are no associates in this thing with us. It's all Charlie and myself...
...Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, peacefully packing their instruments after rehearsal, gave a startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle for "disloyalty." Miquelle left, but his leaving snapped an old and mounting tension...