Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue." When Mr. Durgin asked Mrs. Alison Ridley Evans, Group 20's manager, she said she thought her business had suffered "to some extent," but added equivocally, "It is hard to estimate how much." Yet Group 20's fine current production of Shaw's Man and Superman has evidently done excellent business since it has had to be held over an extra week...
...years that Miss McKenna has been seen in this country, she has done a superlative job in two recent plays, Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden and Morton Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers. But she has also recreated an impressive number of classic roles. She has given us a warm Sister Juana and a wonderful Maggie Wylie; and an unmatchably transcendent Saint Joan, which may serve as a yardstick for all future performances by an actress. In Shakespeare, she has now offered us a memorable Hamlet (yes, the title role!), Viola, and Lady Macbeth. And I have not cited...
...announcing record profits in the middle of a strike for higher wages. Said an officer of U.S. Steel, the industry's leader: "Our earnings are pretty large. I guess they could come out at a better time. But we are taking it like good sports, proud to have done so well. Even after wage-cost push, depreciation, wasteful practices and such, we still have an awfully big hunk of dough left over...
...Steel's Fairless Works in Pennsylvania did not get the wages coming to them from work done in the last days before the strike, management explained that payroll clerks were also on strike. Other strikers lined up to collect up to a fortnight's back pay. But every week, workers lost more than $50 million in wages. Even if they win a 10? hourly wage hike, it will take them close to six months to make up for one week's lost wage...
...hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president of a major U.S. railway: "We could solve all our financial problems if we had no featherbedding." One big reason for the high cost of U.S. houses is that...