Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German recovery possible. Currency reform and the laissez-faire economic policy adopted by Konrad Adenauer's businessman Government gave Germans a driving incentive to rebuild their factories, buy new machinery on credit, and go without to make the monthly interest payments. Yet it was German hard work that overnight turned revival into boom. German heavy workers, with the approval of their trade unions, put in up to 54 hours a week for an average wage of $18 to $22. Many Ruhr factories keep going full blast on Saturdays and Sundays; their employees are often...
Nobody expected the Republicans to change the stormy Fair Deal climate overnight; for many reasons, they could not. Under the Democrats, great areas of Government-particularly those having to do with business-were moved into the controlling hands of boards and commissions whose members were appointed for specific terms. Hence, barring mass resignations, many of these boards will remain in Democratic control for some time to come. The Federal Trade Commission will not pass into Republican hands until next September. CAB will be controlled by Democrats until December 1953, the Interstate Commerce Commission until 1954. But businessmen hoped that...
Forthwith the Times got a lesson in 1) the power of advertising and 2) the readiness of Stevenson followers to write for their candidate. Overnight, 2,120 letters and wires flooded into the Times offices. Only 142 urged the paper to stick to Ike; the other 1,978 called for a switch. Next day, just as it would with any other news story, the Times dutifully reported the avalanche of "restrained communications" in response to the ad. It answered the communications by reprinting a three-column editorial that it had run only three days before, reaffirming the Times...
...about some of the plants of the Bible. The "hyssop that groweth out of the wall" might be any one of many wall-growing plants. The manna that fed the Children of Israel has been variously explained as a gum that forms on desert trees, as algae that grow overnight on dew-covered ground, as a lichen that blows around the desert, even as migrating quail. The Moldenkes have confidence in none of these theories. They think that manna was a legendary product with no botanical origin. The Children of Israel had no theory about it except that it came...
...Washington contingent chartered a coach from the N. Y. Central Railway for the weekend, and will stay overnight either at one of the Houses or at Radcliffe...