Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's $1.5 billion Consolidated Edison Co. serves 2.6 million customers, more than any other private gas & electric company in the world. Last week big "Con Ed" decided to improve its 53-year-old pension system, announced a plan which union & management say is one of the best in the country. Beginning April 1, all 30,000 Consolidated Edison workers who reach the compulsory retirement age of 65 and have 30 years of service will get a pension of at least $125 a month (including Social Security benefits), and a majority of employees will get more. The company...
...con who doesn't remember the outside world, Richard Baschart looks reasonably bewildered. He is, however, not as gorgeous as all the female characters in the movie thought. Marilyn Maxwell and Dorothy Hart, the two nurses at the hospital where the here finds work, inject the usual amount of spice into commonplace roles. Each manages to appear frightened when a man's hand is at her throat, and each manages to hold a kiss until the director calls for a blackout. John Hoyt, the master crook who happens to be carried into the hospital just as the hero begins...
...good, honest, cheerful and orderly, because whatever kind of behavior she portrayed, the child would imitate . . . Mothers occupied a position of importance which they have never since recovered. This was the day when Mother knew best; there was no book, no scientific authority to shake her maternal self-con fidence . . . Her 'instincts' were right." She was not told when to feed the baby, nor was she told...
Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...
...ones you find in our U.S. edition. Many of them (and there were 2,792 pages of them in our four International editions last year) are directed towards supplying the needs of war-torn or economically undeveloped areas, and almost always they offer their wares by selling the con cept as hard as the product. They sell insecticides, antibiotics and pharmaceutical products, for instance, by selling American standards of health; they sell trucks, petroleum products, road-building equipment and automotive replacement parts by selling American standards of transportation; they sell agricultural equipment by selling American standards of food productivity; they...