Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repair shop to nuclear lab, from farm to Ford Motor Co. They coupled a broadened outlook with a conservative, down-to-earth manner that is reflected in the nation's growing calmness before cold-war threats. Many absorbed a sense of order, organization and responsibility that became the lifeblood of corporations, unions, colleges...
Popular Opinion. The north coast Nicaro mines, source of 11 % of the free world's nickel, are out of production: last week government bombers, aiming for the rebels, instead hit Nicaro warehouses containing $500,000 worth of machinery. The sugar crop. Cuba's economic lifeblood. 75% of which comes from rebel-saturated Oriente. Camagüey and Las Villas provinces, is largely in Castro's hands, as the January harvest approaches...
...shucking off all but 159 of Rexall's 540 wholly owned stores, Dart also strengthened the company's ties with its franchised U.S. and Canadian druggists, who no longer had to compete with them. The franchisers are Rexall's lifeblood, and Dart has carefully courted them. He urges them to visit the Los Angeles headquarters (1,000 will this year), rolls out the red carpet. When the junketeering Rexallite marches into the lobby, he is surprised to see his name posted in two-inch-high plastic letters on a welcome sign and hear it blared through...
...afternoon dailies doubled their price to 10? last spring, they have lost 301,000 in sales-almost as much as the daily circulation of the morning Herald Tribune. In a city where death in the afternoon is a classic newspaper fate, the three have been scrambling to regain circulatory lifeblood. even if it means draining the other fellow's veins. This week Hearst's Journal-American (circ. 585.121) launched its boldest raid on rival circulation. At the cost of "close to $1,000,000" a year for more newsprint and personnel, the paper began running complete daily stock...
...Teamsters in New York City." Teamsters Union Joint Council 16 controls the flow of all goods moving through the city. Said Kennedy: "If the Teamsters are controlled or run by hoodlums or gangsters, or run by people who have an obligation to hoodlums and gangsters, or Communists, then the lifeblood of New York City, and really of the U.S., can be cut off ... We are going to get into mass extortions, misuse of power, and mistreatment of individual union members." Then, with a parade of witnesses, Counsel Kennedy showed how Racketeer Johnny Dio and his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, took over...