Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boost after 1,500 trucking firms halted their three-day lockout, they were not noticeably elated. For three days, Teamsters in Chicago struck for a 90?-an-hour boost instead of an hourly increase in wages and fringes totaling 600 to 700 over a three-year period, as accepted by the national union. In its talks this fall, covering 775,000 workers, the United Auto Workers union is expected "to go quite high," as an Administration economist puts it, placing further strains on the economy...
...ready for a merger. Though outwardly in strong shape, with 46 restaurants and six motor inns as well as its food-processing, the company has recently been having trouble keeping earnings up to snuff. As of January 31, six-month earnings were off $140,000 from the same period last year on sales of $43 million. Part of the problem, explains 65-year-old Vernon Stouffer, who parlayed his mother's recipes into millions, is cost control. "Rents and investments have grown tremendously, and higher salaries in other industries make executives difficult to obtain." Litton's resources...
...portrait of Erasmus but felt it necessary to protect himself by putting an inscription right in the painting: "If you really want to know what the man Erasmus is like, read his books." A book, either by or about the man, would give information gathered over a longer period than the interval presented in a single picture...
From this reasoning has emerged a criticism of portraiture that persists to the present day: if the time period for gathering information is small, then the amount of information itself must be small...
Even Surrealism has come to photographic portraiture. Harry Calahan has four portraits of Elanor. They are taken over a seven year period, so presumably he knows her fairly well. The most astounding picture portrays Eleanor as the Cross, and the Cross as Eleanor. The cross is formed by the vertical line from the top of her buttocks to her knees, and horizontal line across the bottom of both buttocks. It is called simply "Eleanor." But this is the earliest portrait in the series, and successively larger fractions of her anatomy are included in successive pictures. Again...