Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas Mellon Evans had a reputation as a tough boss-but hardly anyone realized quite how tough. When he took over Chicago's 104-year-old Crane Co., the nation's largest maker of valves, pipes and pipe fittings, last spring (TIME, May 11), employees braced for a shakeup. They were hardly prepared for what followed. Last week Crane announced the resignation of Norman F. Garrett, the fourth of its six vice presidents to go in three months. Five directors have resigned since Evans took over as board chairman, paring the board down to six men. Burly, rough...
...Harvard's distinguished historians will teach courses on television this Fall. Robert C. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, will offer "European Imperialism," while Crane Brinton '19, McClean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will give "The Anatomy of Revolution...
...same mating place year after year. Would these return? As bird lovers waited, the first report came on April 18: the male was back; three days later, the female followed. The ornithologists were ready. In a campaign that rivals the efforts to protect North America's whooping crane, Waterston and his aides strung barbed wire around the base of the tree, planted the vicinity with booby traps, built an observation post with a covered approach. Relays of guards kept 24-hour watch, helped at night by a parabolic microphone so sensitive that they could hear the female panting...
...example of featherbedding, Republic Steel Co. pointed to crane operators. Years ago, each mill crane got a double crew so that crane-men overheated from lifting hot steel could get out and cool off. New cranes are air-conditioned, but they still have double crews...
Under the hot shimmer of July in Jerusalem, a giant crane swung endlessly back and forth last week lifting new girders above an old shrine. The Dome of the Rock, at Jerusalem's eastern edge, was to have a new covering. Yet as riggers scrambled over the site, assembling the scaffolding and preparing huge aluminum beams for erection, a controversy raged over the project, with loud cries that one of the world's holiest spots was being defiled instead of restored...