Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio Free Europe decided it was safe to reopen the cafeteria, and on the RFE bulletin board, Director Hazelhoff described the affair of the poisoned salt shakers as a "dramatic illustration of deep Communist concern about the effectiveness of our broadcasts," which would hopefully cause all in this "front line" to "redouble our efforts in a mission proved of crucial importance...
...which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background. Key to the composition is the girl's arm, tenderly outstretched toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks for the princess' suitor. In this case, Koerner says...
...show said, 'She's no good; dump her.' " But Penn had already recognized something Anne's critics had not: she took direction admirably. "I even had to tell her where the jokes were, but once was enough." On the road Gibson would "write a funny line for Fonda and a question for Annie, and she'd get the laugh and leave Hank standing there with the line in his hand...
...force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output at the same time last year. All told, the industry should produce 142,000 new cars this week v. 86,000 last week. For the first time in nearly four weeks, new cars rolled off General Motors' assembly line...
Upjohn's Dr. E. Gifford Upjohn conceded that the race of drug companies to keep up causes his firm, in line with others, to spend 28.6% of its budget on 1,000 salesmen (out of 5,700 employees), plus other promotional activity. Research costs: 9%. Despite the high overhead, the companies are immensely profitable. The Kefauver subcommittee presented tables showing that the drug companies averaged profits of 21.4% of their net worth, compared with 11% for all U.S. industry. Part of the answer, said the subcommittee, was the pricing policy...