Word: perk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City 12,000 members of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International Union (A.F.L.) dropped their demand for an increase in employer-financed pension benefits, asked that the $1,000,000 be diverted to an industry promotion fund to perk up declining hat sales...
When the directorship of an important art museum falls vacant, the directors of every U.S. museum perk up. In the game musical chairs that follows, even the lowliest may find a plushier seat. Last summer Perry Rathbone, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, was appointed to fill the directorship of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (vacated by the death of George Edgell...
...early crowd gave way to the late one, the little band began to perk up. Vibraphonist Joe Roland bent over his instrument like a chef over a hot stove. Guitarist Tal Farlow, who had gazed vaguely into space as he played, began to take an interest in the way his fingers rambled up & down the fingerboard. Clarinetist Shaw began to interpolate light-hearted musical comments on his own flights-the raised eyebrow of a grace note, the shrugging arpeggio, the delayed take, the impudent echo. His glum face relaxed into smiles, and the crowd began to hear the new Artie...
Bread & Butter. To perk up sagging sales of butfer, the American Dairy Association made a deal with International Milling Co. of Minneapolis to include 25? toward the purchase of a pound of butter in every 5-lb., 10-lb., or 25-lb. sack of International's Robin Hood flour (a 50? coupon is in every...
With time out to do a turn with WPB during World War II, Solinskj' built his little Cans, Inc. into an $8,000,000-a-year business making containers for Perk Dog Food (TIME, Sept. 29), popcorn, potato chips and beer. Competitors think the trouble with National Can is that it has been run too long by men who have been sitting on their own product. By exploiting such new markets as canned whole milk, Solinsky hopes to get the company back on its feet, boost it from fourth to third in the industry. Says...