Word: melone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nike to protect some of its strategic bomber bases. However silly the argument may have seemed, there was a reason for it: the Defense Department was in the last stages of carving out its budget for fiscal 1957 and both services were seeking a larger cut of the melon for their own weapons development programs...
This week, just 50 days after General Eduardo Lonardi took over the Argentine presidency from Juan Perón, the anti-Perón revolutionary movement split like an overripe melon-and moderate Eduardo Lonardi was in the wrong half. Without waiting for the guns to be drawn ug, he quietly stepped down. Into office went another, tougher revolutionary, Major General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu...
...time, Dalmia was pledging his life to the service of the poor. He could afford to. For this skinny little man with a split-melon smile had amassed an empire which controlled one-sixth of all Indian industry, ranged from banks to coal mines, insurance companies to newspaper chains. Son of rich parents who had lost their money, he says he made his first killing before he was 19 by cornering the Bombay gold bullion market. By 1937 he had made and lost three fortunes in speculations and won a hold on a cement factory, the foundation of an industrial...
...base year figure (as measured by sales value) should go into a bonus pool. A fourth of the pool money was automatically set aside as a reserve fund to be paid out in the break-even or deficit months when no bonus was earned. The rest of the melon-made up of increased value through productivity savings-was split; labor got a whopping 75%, management 25%. The first month's bonus, paid in September 1954, amounted to $43,199, a 13.8% wage increase. In January, the pen and pencil industry's seasonal low point, the workers failed...
...surrealist heyday, Salvador Dali made his name a byword with his meticulously rendered crutches, melon-shaped buttocks and limp watches dramatically set against elongated dream vistas. But when Dali moved his subconscious props into religious art after World War II, his work left the critics cold. For his recent Manhattan show Dali personally grabbed the limelight by mugging with his wax-bean mustache, but his work drew a bouquet of cabbages. His smooth-as-melted-ice-cream paint surfaces reminded one critic of "old miniatures painted on celluloid." Other critics deplored the "vacant trivialities" in the show...