Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until yesterday's action, the GSAS had an iron-clad ruling that no graduate student could receive more than a total of $2,200. Under this ruling, if a student held a scholarship, he was not allowed to receive more than $900 for teaching...
...different leading man. Barry Sullivan, in the role of the police lieutenant, blurs some of the finer tones of a complex and potentially almost tragic character. A paradoxical mixture of physical strength, heroism, and of nearly morbid sensitivity, the lieutenant is driven to break South Africa's iron law by the frigidity of his wife and a lack of understanding on the part of his father. Sullivan's portrayal of the man's strength is clear and impressive, but his weaknesses appear as if they were brought on by nothing more serious than a hangover...
...York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost $1,000,000 on a catastrophic venture into the stock market. "Never shall I forget my shame and humiliation," he said, "when I told Father of this situation. I had no money to meet the loss with...
...chances," J.D.R. Jr. exhorted his colleagues. "If we keep at it, and follow up all possible clues, we shall eventually reach the desired goals." Often it was not easy. One dark season more than 20 people were killed in picket-line skirmishes at the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In Manhattan angry crowds howled for J.D.R. Jr.'s blood: "Shoot him down like a dog!" J.D.R. Jr., first reacting instinctively to defend his Colorado managers, later went out to Colorado with a bright young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became his lifelong friend...
Russian Gain. ECE also reported sizable increases in production in the Iron Curtain countries-based on their own somewhat questionable statistics. Soviet Russia's three big agricultural areas this year expect to produce 60 million tons of grain v. 36 million tons before Nikita Khrushchev plowed into the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and Siberia...