Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...padlocked eight girlie-magazine publishers and swooped through bars, sending B-girls home. Mapping a massive assault on Singapore's notorious gangsterism, police debated issuing identification cards to Singapore's 7,000 known hoods and pimps. The immediate, unexpected result: for the first time in memory, a full week went by without a kidnaping, extortion or gangland rumble reported...
...only a narrow (147 to 125) margin. Shortly after, the House's watchdog Armed Services Investigation Subcommittee fired off 840 questionnaires to 100 leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves. If not, they'll become suspect. If you enlist brains for the sake of brains, there is nothing wrong. But if you enlist names for the sake of contacts, that is wrong...
...undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve that level. What really counts, says the union, is the industry's minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, which is equaled or exceeded by nine major industries and is 11? lower than the auto industry. Besides, steelworkers rarely work a full work year; they have averaged 40 hours a week in only one year in the last 13. ∙ Industry insists that workers do not deserve a raise because their wages have already outrun gains in productivity, which the industry calculates has risen at an annual rate of 1.5% a year...
Alarmed by the suffocation of 55 children this year by plastic bags, the plastics industry last week launched a million dollar common-sense campaign to preserve safety, along with its 3 billion-bag-a-year business (estimated $30 million in sales). In full-page advertisements in 117 major newspapers across the nation, the industry warned: "Never keep a plastic bag after it has served its intended usefulness. Destroy it: tear it up and throw it away...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tony Randall, Judith Anderson and Margaret O'Brien concoct an evening full of problems out of the small talk and big times of cafe society. Based on The Second Happiest Day, 1953 bestseller by John Phillips, son of Bestseller John P. Marquand...