Word: fact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything bothers her about her career, it is the fact that directors so often cast her as a lady of uneasy virtue. In her first straight dramatic part-in the forthcoming movie Austerlitz, with Orson
...offers. The peculiar luminosity of his technique, which involves mixing the colors with wax and applying them cold with a palette knife, contributes to Florsheim's recent rise. So does his increasing ability to suggest deep spaces and complex forms without defining them. More important is the fact that his pictures bring over into the world of art a once dim and obscure night world, newly sparkling...
...most remarkable fact about consumer buying is that nothing seems to deter it. During both the recession and the steel strike, consumers held to their buying pace, thus bolstered the economy in a key area just when it needed support. Now, though personal income has leveled off, the consumer is still stepping up his spending...
...Haven over $3,500,000 a year," says George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad. "This is absolutely unessential." Says E. F. Bidez, vice president of the Central of Georgia Railroad: "In 1958 we paid firemen on freight and switch engines $1,005,000. Considering the fact that we could get along without most of them, that's a good bit of money. It's 50% of the net earned last year." The Great Northern Railroad reports that it paid $21 million for time not worked...
...actually required for safety reasons by many states, that cutting down crews would add to railway accidents. (Actually, states with such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come to regard featherbedding as a sort of fringe benefit, making up for the fact that railroad men have to sit by the phone for long hours without pay while waiting for a call to work, get no premium pay for nights, Sundays or holiday work, are not paid for away-from-home terminal expenses. Furthermore, despite all the complaints about featherbedding...