Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maternity Leave. In Kansas City, Kans., after vice-squad officers found a half-full pint of bourbon in his beer parlor, Barkeep Floyd Baker was fined $200 for illegal possession of whisky, despite his testimony that he never touched the stuff himself, kept it on hand for his female poodle, who drinks it "just when she is about to become a mother...
...other top shows, TV came close to realizing its greatest potential: The Moon and Sixpence (NBC) presented Sir Laurence Olivier with a script that, despite faults, gave his immense talent full range. Somerset Maugham's biting novel of a man in the grip of artistic demons was formidable for transformation into less than 90 minutes of television drama. Before Playwright S. Lee (People Kill People Sometimes) Pogostin was called in, along with Director Bob Mulligan, two other scriptwriters had fumbled the job. After 48 hours packed with pencil work, pep pills and black coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built...
...moon's hidden face is covered with what appears to be mountains, which always look brighter than seas. The Russians named one conspicuous series the Soviet Range; the rest of the area is probably, a Jacqwork of circular meteor craters. The published pictures were taken at almost "full moon" from Lunik's point of view, i.e., with the sun directly "overhead." At such a time, even steep slopes near the center of the moon's disk cast no shadows and are therefore hard to photograph. Other pictures may show many more craters, cracks, valleys and other features...
...days of October (338,465) as they sold in all of September, and sales for the last ten-day period were running 20% over the previous ten days. Some dealers took advantage of the scramble to hike prices, and even unsold 1959 models, in some areas, were commanding full list prices...
...when freight trains averaged 12½ m.p.h., passenger trains 20 m.p.h. Today it means that a railroader can do his day's work in as little as two hours. ¶ Wipe out the distinction between the work performed by road crews and yard crews, thereby allowing full interchange of labor without duplicated effort. ¶ Eliminate firemen's jobs on diesels and other non-steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand...