Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell executives recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...
...said that the best students go to the Law School, the next best to the Medical School, and Arts and Sciences and Business then must make their selections. Actually, the 1958 Class gives an indication of a reversal of this trend. Twenty-five of the 36 highest honors group intend to go into Arts and Sciences and 11 into Medicine, with none to the other schools except one to Design...
Other gold-star states that intend to balance their budgets without any new or increased taxes: North Dakota, Georgia, Nevada, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee...
...superabundance of brass at the top; e.g., Paraguay's two-gunboat navy has seven admirals. Early this month Stroessner arrested several junior army officers and transferred others to a searing Chaco outpost. It may be lonely to be South America's last dictator, but Stroessner does not intend to be blown over by breezes from a distant Caribbean island...
...planning to put a man up in a satellite. Astronomer Alexander A. Mikhailov, director of Pulkovo Observatory near Leningrad, told a TIME correspondent last week that they are also planning a manned voyage to the moon. The biggest problem, he said, is safe return, and they do not intend to risk a man until they are sure of getting him back alive...