Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the company completed a move of its straw-hat division to Winchester, Tenn. and will open a new plant in Nevada...
...troops would blow the place to smithereens. Taruc was waiting at the foot of Mt. Arayat, an extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were speeding towards Manila, escorted by army jeeps...
...Hats in the Air. Manhattan critics divided sharply on the show. The Herald Tribune's Emily Genauer found it "all really very good-looking, but it's still so uninteresting." Art News's twinkly old Henry McBride, who has been reviewing for more than 40 years, flung his hat in the air. The show proves, said McBride, "that this country of ours does seem to be really going along at last on its own power, with so few and such slight references to European painting that they may be discounted at the start." Others were less quick...
...Norwalk, Conn, ten months ago, 1,400 members of the A.F.L. Hatters Union struck, in support of a principle, against the Hat Corp. of America (Dobbs, Knox, Dunlap and Cavanagh hats). They insisted that no company has the right to move any of its operations to other parts of the country without an O.K. from its union. The hatters demanded a no-move clause in their contract; the company refused. The A.F.L. executive council backed up the union, decided to make the strike a test of the "runaway shop" issue...
Next year's residents will be chosen on the basis of regular room preference cards, Miss Lacey said. Rooms are assigned by numbers, drawn from a hat, and priority for places in dorms is given according to seniority...