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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did not sit well. Opposition Leader Eugene Schaus charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required by law? In the resultant fuss, the government toppled and a general election was called...
...last four years, in a series of guest appearances with the Chicago and San Francisco Operas, he has been treated to a steady chorus of critical huzzas. His recording of The Girl of the Golden West (with Tebaldi for London) has been lavishly praised. Currently, he is negotiating a contract with the Metropolitan...
Ralph Marterie and his band will play for the formal Saturday night dance on Jubilee Weekend, O. Y. Lewis '62, chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, announced yesterday. Earlier this term, the committee had signed a contract with George Wein and the Storyville band for the Friday night dance...
...would create 25,000 to 35,000 new jobs in basic steel." Employment, McDonald noted, has not risen as fast as production since the recession; consequently, his featherbedding idea would take up some of the slack. McDonald, who threatened a strike July1 if there is no new contract by then, also had words for Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator had proposed that the union peg its wage demands to the average increase in steel productivity. Snapped Steelworker McDonald: "I wish Senator Kefauver would learn to keep his nose out of my business." Retorted Kefauver: "The price of steel...
...breeding stock. In Gainesville, Ga., Jesse Jewell, Inc. operates what it believes is the largest integrated chicken business in the world (TIME, Jan. 14, 1952). Buying Vantress roosters and hens from a New Hampshire breeder, Jewell hatches the eggs, sends the chicks out to 270 contract farmers in a 55-mile radius. The chicken houses are so thoroughly automated that one farmer can look after two houses, each containing 18,000 chickens. The feeding is entirely automatic: a conveyor belt with cleats dribbles the mash out in front of the chickens. About all the farmer must do is see that...