Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strong faculty opposition to combining Widener's two card catalogues into a mammoth first-floor unit, which broke out in last week's faculty meeting, mounted yesterday as petitions circulated against the proposal. Under the plan, the charging desk would also be moved to the first floor...
Underlip clamped over upper, knuckles on his desk, Harry Truman faced his questioners. He had just declared the railroad tie-up "intolerable in an emergency" (see Labor), and announced that he had told the Army to "take appropriate action." Had he any news of progress in the dispute between the switchmen and the railroads? a reporter asked. Truman said that they were still talking with each other, that, as the reporters knew, an agreement had been signed. Harry Truman paused, then burst out angrily: the railroad union leaders acted like a bunch of Russians; they went back on their signature...
...uncluttered desk he keeps a special folder called his "weather-eye file." There are laid out some of the massive problems for which he must find the answers: getting a manpower policy under way, food prices, pushing scientists into finding substitutes for critical minerals such as cobalt, stockpiling...
...built Halle Brothers Co. into a $39 million-a-year business, and left 82-year-old Samuel Halle the last survivor of the big-name U.S. department-store pioneers. Last week key employees surprised spry Co-Founder Halle with a 60th anniversary luncheon and the gift of a leather desk set -which he can use daily as the still-active chairman of the board...
...aroused freshman pointed disgustedly to his ceiling, from which water drips freely and frequently onto his desk and floor from the bathroom upstairs...