Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bandits had planned carefully. During the hold-up one said: "We've been casing this joint for six months." They knew the bank employees' names and faces. They also knew that the vaults contained an extra $200,000 that day to meet local payrolls. In every way, the bandits were much better prepared than the Manhattan Co.'s 35 branch banks in Queens, three of which were recently robbed. Until this month, none of the 35 had any armed guards or protective alarms...
...preoccupation with immediate, practical results, the U.S. is badly neglecting pure scientific research. The warning was sounded last week by Nobel-Prize-winning Atomic Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg* before a joint meeting in San Francisco of the Atomic Industrial Forum and Stanford's Research Institute. Seaborg's clincher: of the nation's huge ($3 billion) annual outlay for science, "no more than 5% . . . is used for basic research...
...liquor store) talked four friends into ponying up $40,000 to start a service called Sports Information Results. The police tapped his wires for weeks before they were satisfied that the 50 phone lines Rue wanted to put to work were not the sinews of a bookie joint...
...bureau, titled the Central Financial Advising and Purchasing Agency, will assist organizations, at their request, in investment, bookkeeping, and technical aspects of financial management. It will also arrange joint purchases of commodities in large quantities for groups that would otherwise have bought them separately...
...system in which the doctor competes with the hospital for the patient's pocketbook," Dr. Basil C. MacLean, New York City Commissioner of Hospitals, told the New England Hospital Assembly in Boston. Furthermore, said MacLean, some hospitals seem "to be designed on the pattern of a clip-joint nightclub," charging as much as 60? for a couple of aspirin tablets that they buy at 60? per 1,000. "If the voluntary hospital system is to continue," warned MacLean, "shock therapy is needed to cure it of its schizophrenia...