Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...
...Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly after noon the next day he showed up again at the palace for luncheon. This time, as he began to doff his coat in the chilly foyer, Coty admonished him: "No, no. Don't take your coat off here. It's cold." A determined smile came...
When it comes to fiddling, there is hardly a more important contest in the world than Poland's two-week Wieniawski Violin Competition.* The contest opened in Poznan this year with 45 contestants from eleven countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...
...December 1956. Last week Chevrolet scheduled production of 46,400 cars, which would be an alltime weekly production record for the division. Although Ford insists that its sales are up, it has cut its production to 26% of the industry's total v. 31% for the first eleven months, is laying off about 5,000 production workers, principally at its Detroit-area plants. (But it hired workers in Dallas, where sales are surging.) Chrysler, which captured more than 20% of the nation's auto trade during the first eleven months of this year, may slip...
DIVIDEND PAYMENTS last month rose 3½% over same time last year to $325 million. Commerce Department says that biggest gains were made in chemicals, transportation equipment, utilities, iron and steel. For first eleven months of 1957, dividend payments by publicly reporting firms reached $9.36 billion v. $9.04 billion last year...