Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the hot summer nights the radio voices continued to shrill defiance in accents as arresting as those of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer from a minaret, with words as incendiary as a skyful of fire bombs. Nasser's propagandists were sure that they had the edge. Mused one contentedly: "Our radio is so successful because any Arab anywhere in the Arab world can simply turn the knob and hear the echo of thoughts that fill his own heart...
Ghosts & Coffin Carriers. On grounds that the burning of joss paper constitutes a fire hazard and that the houses are a menace to health, the Singapore city council recently decided that the houses must be moved out of the center of town. But last week the perplexed council members were finding that this was more easily decreed than done. One new site proposed by the council proved to be so near a cemetery that professional coffin carriers would have less distance to travel, and would lose revenue. In the other new location proposed by the council, prosperous citizens were complaining...
Died. Wolcott Gibbs, 56, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, author of the 1950 Broadway hit comedy Season in the Sun, which chronicled the sins and insecurities of the Manhattan literary set's Fire Island summer resort; of a heart attack at his summer home on Fire Island...
...Corporate dividends for seven months ending in July amounted to $6,271,000,-000, a decline of less than 1% from $6,312,500,000 paid out in the same period of 1957, despite all the smoke and fire over reduced earnings. ¶ Department store sales for July climbed to 140% of the 1947-49 average, up from 133% in June. At the new level sales are only four points below the alltime record set a year ago this month. ¶ Steel production was scheduled to rise for the sixth consecutive week to 61.4% of capacity, reflecting an earlier-than...
...negotiators hammered out new labor contracts in half a dozen big U.S. industries last week, long-term labor contracts that hand out automatic annual pay boosts came under increasing fire. In this recession year, more than 4,000,000 U.S. industrial workers will pocket automatic increases averaging 8? an hour under contracts signed during the boom years of 1955-56-57; some 4,300,000 U.S. workers will also take home cost-of-living raises averaging 3? to 4? an hour-while industry's earnings are expected to decrease by about $2.5 billion. Businessmen who championed long contracts...