Word: papers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurry") to go to work as an office boy. At 28, he owned a thriving construction import business, and his interests were gushing out like Venezuela's oil. He expanded into a 3,000-acre dairy farm, three cement plants (which produce half the national supply), pulp and paper products, insurance, a paint factory, a giant finance company. As he prospered. Mendoza took care of his own: as early as 1933 his workers were collecting on incentive plans and sharing company profits. Many employees now share annual profits equal to eleven months' salary. He has financed...
Harking back nostalgically to the good old days when party activists worked seven days a week and scarcely found time to eat or sleep, the provincial paper Gazeta Robotnicza blamed the Ziebice fiasco on the fact that Ziebice's Communists were unwilling to accept responsibility. "We might as well say why," mused the paper unhappily. "A number of our activists have come to like the petty-bourgeois way of life. They want nothing else but to be left in peace...
...Opera House in the middle of a three-month cross-country tour, avoided the more blatantly Westernized confections in the repertory, such as Broadway Cinderella, in which the chorus line appears in white top hats and tails. Instead they concentrated on a number of vaguely oriental-flavored exercises, whose paper-thin plots were bolstered with barbarically blazing sets and sumptuously encrusted costumes. Pastel-colored paper globes hung in grapelike clusters, spangled parasols twirled like colored tops, flowery kimonos fluttered beneath frozen comic masks...
...N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential report shown to station owners and trade associations, McGannon's board finds much amiss with commercials for such privacy products. Items...
Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense...