Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his role in more than half a dozen battles has made him "as popular as a skunk." Last week Landa, 60, won his biggest battle by unseating pudgy Leopold Silberstein, 54, from the sick Penn-Texas Corp., taking over as president at $36,000 a year. (Silberstein will collect $40,000 a year for five years as an "adviser.") Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially as a counterirritant to Silberstein, who tried unsuccessfully to win control of Fair banks, Morse. After Silberstein and Fair banks...
...tells the story of a wealthy drunk (Peter Van Eyck) who one day informs the greedy salope (Michele Morgan) to whom he is married that he is going to commit suicide in a few minutes. But if he does that, she realizes instantly, she will not be able to collect the 300 million francs for which his life is insured. "You will have only a few hours," he adds dryly, reading her thoughts, "to disguise my suicide as a murder or an accident...
...Impresario Sol Hurok, 70, returned to the scene of his first U.S. job (as a conductor on Philadelphia trolleys in 1906), picked up a whereas-laden scroll from the city council, honoring him for his contributions to Philadelphia culture, put on a visored cap and an owlish mood to collect a symbolic token or two. Hurok sheepishly admitted that he was fired from the job "because the dispatcher soon found out that I was letting passengers off at the wrong corners...
...Slumping in the American League cellar, the demoralized Detroit Tigers still managed to collect a league record. Lumbering Outfielder Gus Zernial stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the last of the eighth inning in a game with the Yankees, sighted in on one of Relief Pitcher Ryne Duren's fast balls and belted it into the stands for a home run. It was not enough to win the game (Yanks 5, Tigers 4), but it was Zernial's eighth pinch-hit homer, one more than the previous league mark he had shared with Boston...
Meat Cutters Union, which had made no move to organize clerks, offer it an exclusive contract on "sweetheart" terms. In return for the right to collect dues from the captive thousands of A. & P. clerks, the butchers' union signed a 22-month contract committing the employees to work 45 hours a week. A month later, in return for some minor concessions on welfare benefits, the local boss of the butchers, Max Block, secretly agreed to extend the contract for 33 months longer, still at the old hours...