Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...porter system has been completely revamped. "Dormitory crewmen," earning $1.15 per hour, replace the porters of the last few years, who earned $.85 hourly. The cleanup crews will neither make beds nor dust, but will be concerned solely with cleaning floors and bathrooms in what Graham R. Taylor, Director of Student Employment, described as "heavier, rougher cleaning...
...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...
Hardly Disputable. While McCarthy sat almost silent, Committee Counsel E. Wallace Chadwick, in a dogged, dry-as-dust voice, read portions of the McCarthy story into the committee record. Items...
...days when Long Island was a sort of multimillionaire's yacht moored to Manhattan, the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) had her eye on a scion (William Holden). But all she ever got in return was the dust of his foreign-made car as he roared off to live another scene from The Great Gatsby. Resigned to a life in the servants' quarters, she went sadly off to cooking school in Paris...
...constructing the world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close to aircraft-carrier speed and precision...