Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee, visiting in Canada, learned of Eden's decision at a whistle stop in the Rockies. He and other Labor leaders darkly accused Eden of precipitant haste, but stoutly insisted that Labor is ready and eager. The present lineup in the House of Commons is Tories 322 seats, Labor 294, Liberals 6. The Tories are confident that they can increase their majority, for the nation is prosperous, and recent local elections have shown a mild swing toward the right. But the result is no foregone conclusion: not since 1832 has an incumbent British government increased...
...Disneyland. Explained Godfrey: "We're top-heavy with stars." Even his brighter Monday night Talent Scouts, with its constant turnover of fresh talent, has tumbled off the lists of top 20 shows. Godfrey's remedy: "a new show," possibly a bigger Talent Scouts, with the accent on eager new faces. "What's all the excitement about?" Godfrey grumped. "Both NBC and CBS once fired me the same way." Like their predecessor-in-exile. Singer Julius La Rosa (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953), Godfrey's ex-friends soon discovered that they had been hit with a golden...
Mothers' Day. In El Centre, Calif., after 200 eager mothers surged through rope barriers at the city's annual Easter egg hunt and picked the field clean while waiting youngsters went eggless, harried Junior Chamber of Commerce Events Chairman Bob Schwantz announced that he was planning, for 1956, a special hunt just for mothers...
Freedom v. Freeloading. In their all-out campaign to block new "right to work" laws and repeal existing ones, labor unions are backed by many church leaders, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. The laws' supporters are management groups and Chambers of Commerce eager to attract new industry into their localities. In the South, the supporters are Democrats; elsewhere they are mostly Republicans. Main argument for outlawing the union shop: workers who do not wish to join a union are coerced by contracts requiring them to do so or lose their jobs. Main argument against: under the federal Taft-Hartley...
High on Krupp's list of future prospects are other big, potential customers: the Iron Curtain countries. Said one Krupp executive: "We are very eager to make sales to Communist nations-within the framework of existing embargos...