Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sympathy for a Poetess. Lucilla was one of more than 100 visitors who streamed into the President's office that day. Keeping up a practice he began while he was Brazil's Vice President. Café Filho opens his door to the public one day every week. Any Brazilian who wants to talk to the President simply goes to Cattete Palace in Rio and writes his name and address in a book. When his name comes up, a presidential aide summons him to the palace by telegram...
Some students climbed Memorial Hall fire escapes, broke into the Psychology Laboratory beneath the stage, and attempted to force a trap door leading to the Sanders stage...
...office in Detroit's General Motors Building, he runs G.M.'s worldwide empire with an informality that is almost offhand. His long workdays (8 a.m. to 6 or 7 p.m.) are crammed with visits from admen, engineers, lawyers, production men and especially G.M. dealers, to whom his door is always open. Several times a day he may drop in on G.M.'s styling section to see how the latest dream cars are coming along...
...company itself contributes toward the purchase. In so ruling in a case involving Richfield Oil, the National Labor Relations Board significantly broadened the meaning of "wages [and] other conditions" in the Taft-Hartley Act. Richfield is appealing the ruling to the federal courts. But NLRB did not open the door to union demands for companies to set up stock purchase plans; that question was not an issue...
...Stable Door. In Monroe, La., city fathers voted to renovate the 44-year-old local jail after 90-lb. Prisoner Betty Grayson ripped the bars out of the window and escaped...