Word: cutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these unhappy people were doing before they came to Warner Bros." But the actors were not buying that. Most echoed Maverick's James Garner, who makes a reported $1,750 a week: "I feel like a slab of meat hanging there; every once in a while they cut off a piece...
Profits for Peking. Paid to study for five years, a student need never leave the premises. He gets a private room at low rental; no Moscow hotel serves better food than his cut-rate cafeteria. He can warm his mind in the 1,200,000-book library, cool off in the massive swimming pool. His labyrinthine alma mater is a self-contained city, with 133 elevators and miles of columned marble corridors; its 45,000 rooms include 168 lecture halls and 1,700 first-rate laboratories. Geography students alone have 20 labs, featuring such (militarily) educational gadgets as special projectors...
...passed, there was no improvement. Reserved to the point of coldness. Bill Knowland rarely mixed with his staff. Son Joe occupied himself with writing memos to copy boys (No talking to rewritemen) and drawing up rules for staffers (Don't throw cigarette butts on the floor). Overtime was cut to the bone, and staffers who quit were not replaced...
Despite the rising popularity of shareholding, the new army of dividend receivers suffers from serious disadvantages compared with former years. For one thing, it costs more and more to get on the dividends list. From 1950 to 1959. rapidly rising stock prices cut the average yield to a new buyer of the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average from...
...FARE CUTS will come fast next year on international routes. Starting in April, British European Airways will chop prices an average 17% on 400 fares throughout routes in Britain, Europe and the Middle East. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will cut air-freight rates as much as 80% next spring...