Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After war's end, he was made president of the Dodge division, has had a finger in more & more corporate pies and a habit of working at high-compression speed. If Chrysler President K. T. Keller, who will be 65 this fall, should decide to retire, it looked as if Tex Colbert would be among the leading candidates to succeed...
...industries was similarly threatened. When the Consultative Assembly voted a set of resolutions designed to give the proposed control authority more power, the British Labor group abstained. The quarrel between the British and French on the Schuman proposal flared up again when France's Paul Reynaud, shaking his finger at British Socialist Delegate Hugh Dalton, said: "We are told: 'Go ahead, you French, and build the House of Europe. If it is comfortable we will move into the room you have reserved for us. If it collapses we will attend your funeral . . .' Certain members of this Assembly...
...truck driver who had lost both legs had learned to stand and was starting to walk. A mother of two who had been scarcely able to lift a finger because of arthritis mastered the controls of a wheelchair, flexed her hands, learned to walk a few steps...
...boulder-strewn valley on the Aegean island of Samothrace. But the head and arms were missing; ever since, archaeologists have dreamed of finding more of the missing bits. This summer a team of diggers under the supervision of N.Y.U.'s Professor Karl Lehmann uncovered a right hand without fingers, and later, one finger that fitted the hand. Louvre Curator Jean Charbonneaux, on the spot when the find was made, announced last week that he had "no doubt whatever" that it belongs to the Victory, now in the Louvre...
...Louis, a woman put the finger on the Harry W. Schaum Drug Co. because she feared that her daughter, confined in a state institution for drug addiction but soon to be released, would promptly get a fresh supply. In Chicago, a man reported to the FDA office that he had found his wife drugged with products bought from the Fair Price Drug Co. (on a previous drug spree she had landed in jail). There were similar complaints from smaller cities, e.g., in North Platte, Neb. (pop. 12,429) four druggists had illegally sold barbiturates, sulfas and abortion drugs. These firms...