Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force of technical and service workers appears to feel little need for unions. Organizers for the United Auto Workers have landed only 8,000 of Chrysler's 30,000 white-collar workers, have been unable to crack Ford or General Motors. The United Steelworkers union has enlisted less than 30% of the estimated 160,000 white collars in the nation's basic industry. One reason is that management has learned to combat union organizers by granting white-collar workers the increases given to unions; e.g., General Motors, Ford and Chrysler handed about the same increase to office workers...
...this point, says May, the U.S. tycoon is likely to crack up with a psychosomatic heart attack. In fact, psychosomaticists contend that practically any part of the body can be a target for the psyche's anxiety and despair...
...harden the best-organized apparatus in the Middle East. Iraqi Premier Karim Kassem, needing political support for his army dictatorship, has had to call upon the Communists to fight off those who want to merge Iraq into Nasser's one big Arab nation. At this crucial point, a crack is showing in those Arab nationalist forces which were formerly united by the simple desire to expel the West...
...Figuring that 98% of outfield hits fall in front of fielders, Speaker took advantage of his speed, played in so close that he almost breathed down the second baseman's neck. He watched the batter's feet, knew where the ball would go, was off at the crack of the bat. When the fly dropped, he was waiting. Grabbing line drives on the short hop, he threw runners out at first. Player-manager of the Indians during his last ten seasons, he led them to their first World Championship (1920), in recent years served as batting coach...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Having already rounded up most of TV, the western will also try to hog-tie Christmas. George Montgomery and wife (Dinah Shore) take the holiday season's first crack at turning Dickens' Christmas Carol into horse opera (see below for a similar effort on G.E. Theater...