Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power. "Don't ask me; I'm just the President," he tells visitors. To avoid the bother of reading state papers, he has them brought on a tray and turned to the page he must sign; his handwriting is bold and handsome...
...that growers stop feeding the substance to the animals at least 48 hours before slaughtering.) Manufacturers agreed to stop selling stilbestrol to caponette raisers, and the farmers agreed to stop using stuff they will no ' longer be able to get. The Department of Agriculture was stuck with the job of buying up $10 million worth of caponettes already on the market...
...charge for the first time and all but devours the child with her eyes. It is the troubled stranger, caught suddenly between youthful belligerence and a growing awareness of responsibility, who catches a doll full in the mouth, spits a broken tooth into her cupped palm, agonizes over a job she may not be able to handle...
...executives often rise with giddy speed to their high perches, teeter briefly, then disappear with the first rough wind, it is perhaps because they have little administrative and command background for the big job. And so some hang on, but many fall...
Meanwhile, adding fresh green Ivy to the executive tradition, Stanton named a new president: 41-year-old James Aubrey Jr., a 1941 Princeton graduate (and football end) who worked on West Coast magazines (Street & Smith, Conde Nast) and a local CBS station before getting his first network job just three years...