Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among native Libyans there is only one doctor and one engineer (the Prime Minister, who holds a degree from Alexandria University). Libya's only important export is dried esparto grass (used in making paper money); its per capita income is a wretched $35 a year. El Faki helpfully installed 500 Egyptian schoolteachers, sent out and paid by the Egyptian government, supplied Egyptians for every level of officialdom. Two members of the Supreme Court were Egyptians, so was the commander of the small army. Last week El Faki could boast that 1,800 Egyptians are working in Libya today...
...News, hailing Bride-to-Be Margaret Truman, and sent it to the bride's father, Harry Truman. Back came a note of tempered gratitude in which Truman gruffed: "I suppose there has to be a first time for everything." But of the News, a Democratic paper that used to belabor Truman often, the ex-President of the U.S. huffed: "That paper has treated me like a pickpocket...
...members, appointed a brisk little lady named Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz to put it together. The weekly Opera News got under way with no cooperation from the Met, which, even more than it does today, liked to keep its future plans a secret, but the paper chatted about new productions for each week of the Met's then 14-week season, and it survived. Then, through the Saturday afternoon broadcasts, the Guild went on a national basis, soon found itself 16,000 strong; Opera News began to devote itself heavily to the broadcast "Opera of the Week" and became...
...Carl Joyce Gilbert, 50, stepped up from vice president to president of Gillette Co., maker of razors, Paper-Mate pens and Toni permanent-wave kits (1955 net earnings: a record $28 million, up 9% from 1954). He succeeds Joseph P. Spang Jr., who becomes board chairman. Gilbert went to the University of Virginia, got a law degree from Harvard in 1931 and joined a Boston law firm, where he stayed until Gillette hired him as treasurer in 1948. He was made a vice president...
...publicity. It boosted its press run and claimed it was selling 5,000 extra copies daily. In Detroit, Chicago and other cities, business also picked up. When six T-men showed up at the Detroit Worker office, Editor William Allan refused to accept the seizure order, argued that his paper was owned by a separate Michigan corporation. After an hour's discussion, the T-men left. Though Chicago Editor Carl Hirsch was shut off from his typewriter and copy paper, he moved over to another small Communist office, went back to cranking out the local news he writes...