Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the most enthusiastic advocates of statehood realized that stern tests of responsibility had just begun. Along with the statehood referendum, Alaska will hold political primaries next month, elect two U.S. Senators, a U.S. Representative, a Governor and a secretary of state in November. Key job: the governorship, with great power under the new Alaska constitution, including that of some 200 pivotal appointments. Would G.O.P.-appointed Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) make the grade at the polls? He is popular enough even though Alaska is Democratic-minded. But if he fails, he can find comfort...
These new hours will also hold for the Union common rooms, where television, magazines, and materials for the playing of bridge abound. "We should like to encourage good bridge playing up there," Miss Williston said, adding that goods cards, bridge pads, and other essentials for the game are readily accessible...
...PRODUCTIVITY per man-hour advanced 2.7% from fourth quarter of 1957 to this year's first quarter-double the gain of all last year-as companies cut marginal operations and workers hustled to hold jobs...
...first, few companies saw a commercial market for the aerosol cans because their welded steel walls, necessary to hold their high pressure, made them too heavy (1 lb.). But as Du Pont developed lower-pressure gases, the cans became much lighter, and the aerosol industry started to boom...
...Colonial Airlines, where he took over briefly (nine months) as president in 1951. He stepped back in as a consultant a couple of months later when a stockholders' proxy fight developed because of proposals from two competing airlines to buy Colonial. Landa pacified the stockholders, managed to hold off any purchase until Colonial stock had risen. Eastern Air Lines eventually bought Colonial at $24 a share v. the $7.62 market price when Landa stepped...