Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canaveral one afternoon last week thundered an Army Jupiter-C rocket. Seven minutes later, the rocket popped a satellite into orbit. What was even more remarkable than this space-age achievement was the fact that the world accepted the news of a third U.S. orbiting moon with a great deal less flutter than that accorded the winners of Hollywood's Academy Awards (see CINEMA...
Four Republican and three Democratic Senators last week signed the most scathing bipartisan indictment of a large segment of U.S. organized labor to come out of a congressional committee since the unions hit their heyday under the New Deal. In an interim report based on 16,000 interviews by investigators, testimony by 486 witnesses at hearings and 17,485 transcript pages, a special Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan freely used such words as "plunder" and "hoodlums," "gangsters" and "thievery" and "collusion," and "crime against the community." Major finding: "Union funds in excess of $10 million were either...
...doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees tied to how much their leg or their life means to them, and regard this as biological blackmail." ¶The G.P. is getting a raw deal, complained Oklahoma's Dr. Malcom E. Phelps in his presidential address to the American Academy of General Practice in Dallas. Members agreed, passed a resolution denouncing the system whereby they are frozen out of many hospitals by boards under specialists' control and are denied the right to do routine surgery...
...deference to this home-cooking atmosphere, the club bans off-color acts, hustles drunks out of sight. On week nights groups of 20 or more who want to dance, munch steerburgers, and watch the show from left field, can get out of the Town & Country on a package deal for as little as $3 apiece. But. depending on the attraction, the minimum can also run to $6.50 a head, and there may be as many as 4,500 customers a night (the crowd is politely asked to leave after the first show to make room for the second shift). With...
Since he and Lucy are sole owners, there is no lag at Desilu when he decides to make a deal. He beat two major bidders for the RKO studios when he strolled off a Lucy set one day last fall and made a phone call nailing down the purchase from General Tire & Rubber Co., RKO's owner since 1955, for a bargain $6,150,000. Desi usually spends ten hours a day at work, chauffeurs himself in his black Thunderbird from the Beverly Hills mansion where he and Lucy live with their two children, Lucie Desir...