Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Loew had news calculated to put stockholders in a happier frame of mind. To cut costs, President Loew had abolished all profit-sharing contracts for executives, eliminated retirement plan payments for everyone making more than $500 a week, cut in half the payments for other employees. Earnings in the second quarter this year would be up, he predicted-more than enough to cover the 25? quarterly dividend. Loew's hopes to put out better movies, he said, and is also studying TV possibilities. M-G-M has 1,000 sound features, plus another 1,100 sound shorts adaptable...
...discussed giving money to Harvey Matusow, the professional witness and chronic liar who declared that he had not told the truth about Communist activities. On other counts-to the effect that Hughes was lying when he depicted Rauh not as a dupe but an accomplice in his unsuccessful frame-up of McCarthy-the jury was "hopelessly deadlocked...
Police examined the two figures sprawled on the floor of the little frame house in Marshalltown. Iowa, and called the undertaker. Despite a low-burning oil heater, the 24-below-zero cold had crept into the house. Mrs. Fred Davis, 50, and her two-year-old granddaughter Vickie had apparently been lying there all night (victims of assault or accident, no one is yet sure which), and their bodies were frozen rigid. But the woman suddenly moaned softly, and police rushed her and the child to the hospital...
Earglasses. A hearing aid, mounted in the frame of a pair of eyeglasses, was announced by Chicago's Beltone Hearing Aid Co. The main advantage of the Hear-N-See is a complete hearing set in each side of the frame, enabling the wearer to adjust volume for each ear and to catch sounds equally well from all directions. Price...
...highest in 1953, a flush-faced man named Paul Hughes held out a bright promise to some of the Senator's bitterest foes. The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends. Last week Hughes went on trial in a Manhattan federal courtroom on a charge of perjury, in what, a U.S. attorney called "one of the most fantastic schemes to make money in the annals of modern political intrigue...