Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLOOD-STRICKEN INDUSTRY in the Northeastern states will get defense contracts. Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming has directed Government agencies to channel new contracts to disaster areas wherever possible, thus make more jobs in undamaged factories.
A native of Chester, Pa., Magowan started selling handbags at R. H. Macy & Co. after graduating from Harvard, became merchandise manager of inexpensive, ready-to-wear departments at 31. He quit to become a vice president of N. W. Ayer, left the agency to go to Safeway, in which his...
Eventually, the quints are reunited with Papa Saint-Forget at the big birthday party, and the film winds up in fine farcical style with an ending that is obvious yet surprising, tickling credulity while taxing it. The film has been subtly directed by Henri Verneuil, handsomely produced by Raoul Ploquin...
Politics & Government. As an Arkansas lad, Don Quarles never knew any such animal existed as "a good Republican." In the pleasant, suburban Republican community of Englewood, he switched to the G.O.P. A good citizen, he worked on endless, dreary civic jobs, refused a salary for heading a $13 million county...
Despite his seeming success in becoming what Sociologist David Riesman has called an "other-directed" person, Hal Hingham develops a bad case of jitters. At novel's end, he goes in search of the great confidence man himself and, in a sardonic, O. Henry-sudden finale, finds Dr. Modesto...