Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostesses, keeping his social engagements down to a maximum of three a week. As always, his office swarms with constituents, and John Cooper frequently begins his day with breakfast surrounded by visiting friends. So hectic is the pace that his administrative assistant, Bill Macomber, finds it necessary to pick up the Senator and drive him to the office each morning in order to confer privately and get the Cooper calendar straight...
...Best exemplified by the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, with 400,000 subscribers who pick a "family physician" from a panel of about a dozen in each of 30 groups, and California's Kaiser Foundation Health Plan also with 400,000 members (TIME, June...
While other shippers shied away from Government cargoes (rates about half commercial rates), Tom Cuffe grabbed them. He knew a shipper could pick up a full Government cargo at one dock, thus cut down on the money-losing time a ship spends in port picking up a few crates here and there. Cuffe also hired go-getting Sales Manager Al Papworth to bring in private cargoes. He did so by finding buyers and sellers for goods Pacific could carry. Examples: a Philippine glassmaker who was having trouble finding the right kind of sand was persuaded to import it from...
...that she wanted to be taken to the fashionable Semiramis Hotel. The cops shuddered: the Semiramis was full of tourists loaded with dollars who might not understand about Zouzou in her agitated state of mind. "Look, lady." pleaded a top cop, "you can't go to the Semiramis. Pick any place anywhere in Egypt, in the whole damn world for all we care. But please, please don't say the Semiramis." At 4 a.m. Zouzou capitulated; she would take a suite in a suburban hospital...
...auto industry has been alive with rumors of a merger between Studebaker and Packard so that the two independents could compete better against the Big Three. This week directors of the two companies scheduled a meeting in Manhattan to close the deal, tie up a few loose ends, and pick a boss for their hopeful new company...