Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year Eliot visited the monastery of Montserrat. After long discussion with the monks, he was admitted to the cloister, a rare privilege. While his wife waited patiently outside, Eliot studied the monastery's art collection, stood entranced before Caravaggio's Saint Jerome. On his return, TIME got permission to reproduce the picture, flew Photographer Eric Schaal from Switzerland to make the copy for this week's Art story...
Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...
...slightly bulbous nose and brown hair etched with grey, Blough had not only devised the industry's new policy but would have the most say in whatever settlement the steel industry would make. He is no rough-and-tumble, up-from-the-mill steelman but a lawyer who got into steel via a Wall Street firm, thoroughly learned the business by hard-slogging homework...
...bill, but the Fed's Martin urged the Treasury not to let Congress make a start at dictating the independent Fed's monetary policy. Martin pointed out that it would be very bad for the Government's credit if the financial community, here and abroad, got the idea that the U.S. had officially embarked on a soft-money policy. At week's end the Treasury was swinging around to Martin's stand, felt that taking the Metcalf amendment was worse than having no bill...
Birrell, a Presbyterian minister's son and a lawyer, began his jiggery-pokery after he got control of Swan-Finch in 1954. He increased the oil company's shares and exchanged them for the assets of other firms. The indictment charges that one of his biggest coups, the exchange of 700,000 shares of Doeskin Products stock in 1957 for 1,140,390 shares of Keta Gas & Oil Co., a Swan-Finch subsidiary, was accomplished "by presenting a fraudulent document." Birrell, the indictment charges, signed papers that he would not sell the Doeskin stock publicly, then went ahead...