Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany's top Communist brass is concerned, proletarian equality is for others. For 20 top Communists and their families, a special construction crew is putting finishing touches on a palatial housing development on 186 acres of forest land near Lake Liepnitz, 15 miles north of Berlin...
...less than Boston's. The summers are brief but bright, and on the North's few tilled acres, the warming sun, shining 20 hours a day, produces dahlias as big as dinner plates, carrots a foot long. The dry air slows decay. In 1954 the crew of the Canadian icebreaker Labrador found tins of perfectly preserved mutton, figs, and Normandy pippins left on Dealy Island...
...slow budget of a sustaining show, CBS's Captain Kangaroo (weekdays 8:15-9 a.m., Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., E.D.T.) has it made. Last month the good captain got his first new set, an ark called the S.S. Treasure House; last week captain and crew alike made an overland trip to tape their show at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. All the winds are fair, and by fall, Captain Kangaroo will have a full supply of sponsors for the first time...
...steel industry actually has managed to eliminate featherbedding more than many industries, and management, when pressed for examples of make-work, can only complain that a ten-man hearth crew does the work of seven men, that in one plant five crews are employed to move steel where four could do the job. Featherbedding has helped to break whole firms: automakers now contend that it was a major factor behind the demise of Packard, Hudson and Kaiser cars. The United Auto Workers often insist that several types of skilled workers-machinists, oilers, carpenters, metal handlers-work on a single...
...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A faithful reproduction of the terrifying training mission of a real-life jet-bomber crew. A rerun for those who missed The Obenauf Story (TiME, April 13), but worth seeing again by those who sweated out the original show...