Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Munich's Pastor Adolf Sommerauer, see a strong and rising tide. "There are those who worry that confession could become a sort of fad. There is no need to propagate it. Now that it is known throughout the church that it is available, those who need it can make...
Other unions did not wait for steel to set a wage pattern, pushed in for the best deals they could make.¶ One hour before the expiration of a three-year contract, the United Packinghouse Workers and the Amalgamated Meatcutters got Armour's signature to a two-year contract raising wages 8½?an hour the first year, another 6½?the second. Fringe benefits brought the package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain...
...Losses. The planemakers are not yet making money on their commercial jets, although the jets have proved to be enormously profitable to the airlines. Boeing has delivered 55 of its 7075, has orders for 197 in all. But it still needs orders for 50 more before it can hope to turn a profit, is losing $500,000 to $750,000 on each one it delivers. Douglas Aircraft last week won FAA certification for its DC-8, which will be put in service this month by United and Delta airlines. Even though Douglas has 143 planes on order, it needs...
...largely because they were too busy.with the present to spend time and money on the future. United's Horner candidly acknowledges that his company was in no rush to jump into rocket engines, because it had all it could do to keep ahead in the race to make better jets. "If we had gone into rockets, we might not have had our J-57-" said he, and the J-57, which powers almost all U.S. bombers and fighters, as well as the commercial jets, has been a big moneymaker. But now, United is spending heavily on rocket and nuclear...
Nijinsky's Complaint. No point of style or appearance was too small for his attention. His friend, famed Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, once complained that Salzedo did not make enough show with his hand movements. A harpist's hands should be like a dancer's toes, said Nijinsky: "Of all the instrumentalists, you are the one to be looked at when you play." Salzedo formalized hand movements into a series of flowing gestures, tells his students to emphasize esthetic as well as musical qualities. Says he: "Good looks are an important requisite for an aspiring harpist...