Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadian businessmen welcome U.S. investment in Canada, but they voice one frequent complaint: too often Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. firms are run as mere branch plants, financed, directed and staffed from the U.S. head office. In Montreal last week a top U.S. businessman noted this sore point, predicted that it would soon be remedied. Said Warren Lee Pierson, chairman of Trans World Airlines, Inc. and president of the International Chamber of Commerce: "I predict that American enterprises here will increasingly welcome investment, technical and managerial cooperation in Canada...
Numerous observers, including Adlai Stevenson and Governor Herter, have urged Eisenhower to take some decisive role in easing racial tensions in the South. The most frequent proposal has advocated a bi-racial White House conference, to be composed of thoughtful and dispassionate Southern leaders. Such a group would be valuable not only in repairing frayed communication lines between whites and Negroes, but also in preparing the ground for future study groups and advisory commissions organized on the state level...
...Boston heart specialist, the President takes a pill containing a drug that "thins" the blood. The treatment is tricky because if it goes too far the blood might lose all clotting power, and a nick suffered while shaving could cause dangerous bleeding. The President's doctors make frequent tests, make sure that his blood still has a safe margin of clotting power. He was taking pills daily, now takes them only when tests indicate that it is necessary. The drug is derived from dicoumarin...
...served as the company's chief engineer for 14 years before he became president in 1947. A music and art lover with an engineer's eye for form (he patterned AGE's transmission towers after the Eiffel Tower), Sporn likes to punctuate his conversation with frequent calculations on a slide rule, deals only in precise figures. He has doubled the company's capacity since 1949, hiked operating revenues an average of $15 million a year to $258 million in 1955. He also shaved the price of power to residential consumers from...
...cinema, Olivier's Richard is little more than a photographed play, even though it is photographed (in VistaVi-sion) with the frequent and wonderfully lively feeling that the events have somehow been caught candid. In the film sense -even though the careful medieval settings often smell too much of the theater, and the score by Sir William Walton is seldom better than appropriate-Richard is much more idiomatic and natural than Olivier's Hamlet was, though by its very subject it can never match the swallow's verve and sudden tumbling heartbeat of his Henry...