Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everlasting Need. The citizens of Cassano were surprised when the real criminal spoke up, but only the dullest reader will be. On the other hand, Author Ber-gengruen does not seem noticeably con> cerned with the mystery side of his morality whodunit. His novel's many-faceted problem embraces, besides conscience, might v. right, personal sacrifice, guilt, love and faith...
...gazing into a crystal ball." Steele brought in a bunch of old Coca-Cola hands, set up a detailed method of cost accounting. He slashed costs by eliminating executive bonuses (he incorporated his own in his $96,000-a-year salary), whacking out dead wood, liquidating expensive sales con tracts, and cutting out the company's scholarships and art contests. He also lopped off a bottle-cap factory and a Cuban sugar plantation, because "our business is selling Pepsi." Steele won favor with bottlers with a new national ad campaign, including Faye Emerson on TV. As her neckline plunged...
...Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...
...York area customers are actually discouraged from installing electric stoves because Con Edison only brings the heavy-voltage lead-in as far as the property; the customer has to pay a private electrician up to about $150 to bring it the rest of the way in. Con Edison, selling both electricity and gas, makes no move to encourage a switch to electric cooking...
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