Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying that a pension and welfare plan financed entirely by management would set a precedent, Ben Fairless was not on firm ground. Murray's union already had a number of noncontributory contracts among some 400 pension and insurance agreements with the steel industry and metal fabricators. Bethlehem Steel and Jones & Laughlin had been paying the full cost of pension plans for more than 20 years. Fairless' U.S. Steel itself had been an important party to the royalty-pension contract which operators of soft-coal mines had signed with John Lewis (see below). A steel spokesman said: "The Government...
...analysis of how to soothe ruffled U.S. feelings over the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty. Tactics are studied: Is the issue crucial enough for a personal visit by Franks to Acheson-or will more be gained by "underplaying" it and sending a counselor to his State Department opposite number? After 6½ years' experience in Washington, the Minister is pretty shrewd at pacing and directing the attack...
...made-up at 8 p.m., she went on the air sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise, she has developed a phenomenal memory for lyrics, spot commercials and program notes, because she is too nearsighted to read either sheet music or off-camera...
...Major Michael Walker, who directs an Athens underground during the Nazi occupation; U.S. Airman Tommy McPhail, whose plane has been shot down over Greece and who wants to be gotten back to his base; royalists and Communists; patriots and plotters; Greek girls and English girls, and one calculating American number in a Red Cross uniform...
...Wrong Number. In Los Angeles, Clarence D. Lang, suing for annulment, charged that his wife had deceived him by allowing him to go on thinking that he was her fifth husband when in reality he was her seventh...