Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow's reception. On the first night in town, the visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk that night that even teetotaling Harry Earnshaw lost count over endless...
...fashioned financier, was alarmed. The plan, he said, is "as vague as it is irreproachable." "If I understand you correctly," Reynaud said, "your scenario is like this: you open the frontiers, and there is a massive invasion of foreign goods. There is a terrible shock, and you pick up the wounded at the expense of the state...
...said someone over the noise. "Doesn't she sound like Patti Page?" said another. "Yeah, maybe too much." After a chorus Rolontz lifted the needle. Music Editor Joe Martin (formerly London Records' advertising manager) looked around the room. "O.K.? Put it in the book-as a talent pick." Gary Kramer (the philosophy student) jotted it down...
...record company who is now getting his M.A. in history, and an ex-Army public-relations officer who has studied music at Juilliard. They form the music staff of The Billboard, 60-year-old amusement weekly (circ. 49,966) that has become the bible of the music trade. By picking pop tunes for listing in the paper's widely respected "Spotlight" columns, they do what almost everybody in the business tries to do-pick hits in advance...
...industry, which has been operating at scarcely better than two-thirds of capacity, combined earnings of 30 companies were just 14% under a year ago. U.S. Steel's second-quarter net was down 11.9% to $49 million. But Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless predicted that demand for steel would pick up late this month or in September. Chicago's Inland Steel, which concentrates on basic steels rather than high-cost alloys, announced alltime highs in second-quarter production (102.6% of capacity) and first-half earnings ($19.4 million). Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace also reported profits...