Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes Sagan sprint is the realization that metropolitan dailies today are leaving an ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder...
...Friday before the Sunday show, the hotel was growing tense. The poolside restaurant, its high glass walls plastered with brown wrapping paper, was now a TV control room, sporting a DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE sign, and sprouting cable everywhere. Fifteen Cuban cops guarded the equipment through the night. Guest Star Mamie Van Doren and Singer Steve Lawrence toiled at synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra...
Equally bitter to Young was the knowledge that others who had counted on him to make good were also losing money. The Central's directors, all brought in by Young, lost hundreds of thousands of dollars as the road's stock fell. His Alleghany Corp. had paper losses of more than $16 million on stock it had bought in the New York Central. To make matters worse, Bob Young was being challenged in the courts by a former associate named Randolph Phillips, who blocked some of Young's pet plans for Alleghany Corp. (TIME...
GUARANTEED ANNUAL wage will get broadest extension yet from management of Ohio's Champion Paper & Fibre Co. Plan for 10,000 workers will assure 48 weeks of 40-hour employment (or equivalent pay) this year, far surpassing original 26-week guarantee at 65% of take-home pay won in 1955 by United Auto Workers...
...later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing. If a customer took out his own piece of paper and pencil to note figures, the salesman was instructed to take out his pencil, break off the point, then impatiently grab the customer's pencil...