Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When we heard the familiar crunch last Tuesday, we girded up our photographers and walked down to the corner rather bored. But this was no ordinary, run-of-the-month crash; the laws of chance, always just, had finally entoiled a police car in the policeman's trap. There it was, hanging from a tow truck, with the price of half a dozen stop signs stamped on its fender and grille. Otherwise the scene was the same as all the others...
...Mary Lord of New York, member of Minnesota's Pillsbury flour family, the efficient and articulate co-chairman of the national Citizens-for-Eisenhower organization, a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, and a familiar figure in New York City welfare work...
When stockholders filed into R. H. Macy & Co.'s annual meeting in Manhattan last week, they spotted a new, but familiar face on the board: Actor Robert Montgomery, who was elected to Macy's board last September. In no time at all, Bob Montgomery found himself playing a big scene in which he was cast as the villain. What, demanded heckling stockholders, was he doing there anyway...
President Beatley believes that this sort of education is well suited to the modern girl: "The economics of life being what they are, most girls know that they will have to work . . . We are all familiar with the cliche that education is not preparation for earning a living, but preparation for life-as if it were possible to separate the two. For most of us, work is a dominant life interest, and a theory of education which studiously ignores that fact appears to be something less than liberal...
...when Manhattan's Stone & Webster took it over in 1933. Boshell went along, rose to vice president of Stone & Webster, and handled the liquidation of some 50 utility companies under the death-sentence clause. Moreover, since Stone & Webster once did a financial study for Standard Gas, he was familiar with the intricacies of its history: its early dominance by Chicago Tycoon H. M. Byllesby, who put the pyramid together, then by Wall Street's Victor Emanuel, later by New Dealers (e.g., Leo Crowley) whom Emanuel brought in to try to work out a plan under the death sentence...