Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked slowly into the chamber and took his seat. Vice President Barkley, presiding, noted the white-haired Senator's presence and the members stood and applauded. Arthur Vandenberg, who had undergone nine major operations in the past seven months and had not been at his Senate desk since February, rose with some effort, smiled and made a slight...
When genial, whirlwind Managing Editor Lloyd Downs Lewis emptied out his desk at the Chicago Daily News one day in 1945 and said goodbye to his staff, he was headed for no slippered retirement. Instead he went off to his home in suburban Libertyville, Ill. to get busy on the biggest story of his career: the life of General Ulysses S. Grant...
Away from his desk, Tom Braniff is a placid, easygoing man who plays a leisurely game of golf (he bets more skillfully than he plays), takes off on hunting trips, and at Christmas dresses up as Santa Claus for the children of his 2,401 employees. But the leisurely pace never gets into his business operations. He has applied for additional routes inside & outside the U.S. (e.g., from Havana to Washington and New York). Says he: "All my life I've wanted to see a little farther over the horizon, and the horizon keeps getting farther away...
...socially-conscious businessman, Georgia-born Marion Bayard Folsom, 56, has spent almost as much time in Washington, B.C. during the past 15 years as he has at his treasurer's desk in the $380 million Eastman Kodak Co. This week Folsom takes on another civic chore: the chairmanship of the businessman's Committee for Economic Development, succeeding West Coast Banker W. Walter Williams, 56, who wants to run for U.S. Senator from Washington...
...such changes, Western Union had cut its staff from 66,000 to 43,000 in four years; the new mechanization was saving it money at the rate of $17 million a year. To reduce expensive messenger service, Marshall last year equipped 6,000 business offices with Desk-Fax, a device which permits a customer to send and receive telegrams without leaving his desk...