Word: counts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest started quickly with the Big Green jumping away to a 12-4 advantage at the 5-minute mark. The varsity retaliated, however, and knotted the count at 14-all when Bob Bowditch hit one of his patented left hand jump shots four minutes later...
Behind the bonuses-for-quitting policy was an effort to pare down the Inquirer's bulging head count-more than" 700 editorial and office employees. After an American Newspaper Guild strike last summer (TIME, June 23; July 21) in which job security on the overstaffed Inquirer was a major issue, management and guild agreed that to anyone who resigned or retired in the last half of 1958 the paper would pay a bonus of one week's pay for every year of employment, plus full severance pay (maximum: 31 weeks). The plan worked. In all, 142 employees quit...
However efficiently the Inquirer's head count has been brought down, rival newsmen wonder privately if the paper has not spent good money to get rid of good men. But the Inquirer professes pleasure with the results. The resignations, said Stewart Hooker, director of personnel and labor relations, "have made a staff reduction of about the size we told the guild initially we felt we should have...
...Cairo Museum the small boy leaned over a case. The label said that it contained ten 14-lb. gold bars, dating from the Middle Kingdom and considered to be the world's first gold money. As bored small boys will, he began to count. There were only eight...
...gauge of amber-colored numbers shot up and up. Near by, another figure stood ready to halt the proceedings by pushing a button marked SCRAM. Directed the squawk box: "Insert H-6." As the last bar moved into place, an amber smear shot across the gauge, the radiation count soared to a million a second -and an atomic blaze sprang to life. Thus the nation's first large, privately owned test reactor, built by General Electric Co., went into operation last week...