Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy-go-lucky migrant workers in the flimsy canvas-topped truck were a typical grab-bag assortment from among the 12,000 Deep South Negro laborers who annually sweep northward with the spring to range through North Carolina. It was green-bean-picking time, and this Florida-recruited group had spent some three weeks in the state sweating through the day to feed the canneries, bedding down at night like nomads-men, women and children-in a temporary camp near Mount Olive. Now, en route from the camp to the fields at Dunn, they were rocking along nine miles from...
According to most Christian thinkers, this religious renaissance signifies the bankruptcy of secular rationalism. But whether the revival indicates that a Christian Renaissance is imminent or shows only that a drowning man will grab anything which comes to hand, is imponderable...
...practice to remain until the crowds that inevitably lie in wait for him have dispersed-so as to prevent demonstrations. When he says Mass, he usually emerges from the parish house about an hour after the service. Women kiss his ring, children cling to his robes, people grab at his hands. "Good souls, go home, please," he will say, "or I'll put a tax on you for the rebuilding of the church...
...only at Chrysler but other plants, have raised doubts about the continued rise in U.S. productivity. There are other problems, such as how the benefits of increased productivity shall be divided among labor, investors and consumers. Said Henry Ford II recently; "Any attempt by labor or capital to grab the total increase in productivity, or more, can lead only to price inflation and/or shrinkage of the total market." But if management and labor can agree on an equitable split that will also mean increased dividends to investors plus stable or lower prices to consumers, then most economists believe that...
...stock by using Swiss banks, which are forbidden by law to reveal names of customers, and by making purchases from a handful of mysterious sellers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for helping Silberstein. All told, said Silberstein last week, his Penn-Texas Corp., a grab bag of 20 companies has bought-or agreed to buy-some $35 million in F-M shares. He can count on 669,270 shares (48.7%), or enough to give him control of the $135 million family-run company at the annual meeting next week. Last week, in his reports...