Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's failure to hold on to the auto industry or attract replacements, many Detroit businessmen blame United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and his close ally, Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. Reuther, the arguments run, discourages industry by pushing labor costs higher and higher, and Democrat Williams discourages it by committing himself to Big Labor and the ever higher taxes of the welfare state. Says outspoken Harvey Campbell, vice president of the powerful Detroit Board of Commerce: "Businessmen won't talk about it in public. They are afraid of reprisal. They stand behind me and cheer...
...bill to grant statehood to Alaska has been gathering dust in a House Rules Committee pigeonhole personally guarded by Rules Chairman Howard Smith. Virginia Democrat Smith opposes the bill, at least partly because Alaska would probably send a pro-civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another meeting for that afternoon-knowing...
...olds) hurl colored paper streamers onstage, and many of them practice at home to improve their marksmanship. Those who cannot afford streamers have taken to looting department-store powder rooms of rolls of toilet paper on which they scribble lipsticked love messages, such as daite ageru wayo (I shall hold you), before sending the tissue arching over the footlights. The top rockabilly stars-Masaaki Hirao, 20; Keijiro Yamashita, 19; Micky Curtis, 18, the son of an English father and an English-Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose-pink coats, lobster-colored tight pants, blue or white suede shoes. They...
...have trouble gaining much of a pay boost. With skidding sales, the industry can make a good case that it cannot afford it. Furthermore, there are rumblings of discontent within Reuther's own U.A.W. In all, 115,000 autoworkers are laid off. and the rest sorely want to hold onto their paychecks. Last week automakers reported that they were getting hundreds of heretical, anti-Reuther letters from workers worried about a strike...
...weight of 4.5 Ibs. per gallon to hold down the amount of air manufacturers whip into their product. ¶ A minimum of 1.6 Ibs. of solid substance per gallon to avoid too much water and not enough cream. ¶ Real fruit flavors for sherbets and water ices. Artificially colored products must be clearly labeled...