Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record of Truman Administration corruption, after six years, still hangs over the Democratic Party. Apart from instances of penny-ante skulduggery that resulted in resignations, a flock of damning charges turned into at least eight court convictions. Reconstruction Finance Corp. Loan Examiner E. Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney...
Setmakers blame the networks. "The most important reason for the lack of color television sales is the selfish attitude-the public-be-damned attitude-of the money-hungry, profit-hungry television networks [which] have refused to make any really serious effort toward heavy color programing," said Admiral Corp.'s President Ross D. Siragusa recently...
...chance of a price cut in appliances, instead talked of price increases forced on the industry by higher labor and material costs. In steel, which picked up speed to a scheduled operating rate of 63.8%, a little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects to hike prices to cover the automatic wage increase going into effect on July 1. Consensus: probably...
...than for profit. Adams began searching for ways to put their talents to work making money, later cut out such money-losing items as TV sets, decided that Raytheon's future lay in increasing Government work. He brought in Harold Geneen, former vice president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., as executive vice president in 1956, told him: "Make some money...
...Search for Paradise (Stanley Warner; Cinerama Corp...