Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wage increase that would put a paper out of business. Last week Brooklyn Eagle Publisher Frank D. Schroth was trying to put the Guild's contention to one of its rare tests. Four weeks ago the Guild struck the Eagle, and when mechanical-union employees refused to cross the picket line the paper was forced to suspend publication. The Guild demanded the same $5.80 package wage increase that staffers on Manhattan dailies got in the latest round of wage negotiations...
Radiation Spotters. The National Bureau of Standards has worked out for the Atomic Energy Commission a handy system for following radioactive clouds as they drift cross-country. Throughout a large region around AEC's Nevada testing ground are radiation detectors perched on poles. Each detector has a telephone number, so AEC can dial it and ask it how much radiation it feels in its vicinity. The detector answers with an audible tone whose pitch (frequency) indicates the intensity of radiation. By calling many detectors, AEC can tell just where its clouds are drifting...
...Bridges to Cross (Universal-International), a well-made cops-and-robbers thriller, might have an arresting subtitle: They Stole $2,500,000 and Got Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that...
Doggie Julian's quintet, currently fifth in the League with a 6-5 record, 15-6 overall, has been the only Ivy team to beat first-place Pennsylvania. In addition, the Indians have defeated Connecticut twice and Holy Cross once. But the Green has also been upset by last-place Yale and sixth-place Brown...
Although all sophomores applying to Houses will continue to be accepted, each House will assign a cross-section of sophomore to its entry in Claverly...