Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead with your chin, and keep your pants off the floor. Don't sign with the I.B.C. and don't watch television. They both pick your pocket...
When Kentucky's Governor A. B. (for Albert Benjamin) Chandler tried this spring to hand-pick the Democratic candidates in his state's two U.S. Senate races, he lost two quick falls to Senator Earle Clements and former Governor Lawrence Wetherby. Last week, in the latest round of Kentucky's Democratic wrestle, fast-moving "Happy" Chandler pinned both Clements and Wetherby to the mat and then began to stomp around the ring, waving and mugging at the crowd like a new champion...
Wrong Bug. As chief investigator of a super-secret intelligence unit of the Chicago police dubbed Scotland Yard, Joe Morris had, since 1952, been painstakingly gathering data on Chicago gangsters and their political friends. His tactic: pick up a hoodlum, e.g., Sam ("Golf Bag") Hunt,* grill him, set him free, tail him. With the help of surveillances, wire taps and bugs, Morris filled five filing cabinets with intelligence on 600 "syndicate" mobsters, 8,000 lesser hoodlums, and a disturbing number of his fellow cops and assorted politicians...
...Home laundry equipment that will automatically pick up, sort, clean, iron and fold the wash; cleaning machines that will wash, rinse and dry a kitchen floor in minutes...
Instead, he and his planners reckoned that the death of American would benefit the company's two other magazines−which are in even worse financial trouble. "The odd thing," said Smith, "is that the least loser turned out to be the best one to pick to put out of business." Collier's (circ. 3,772,079) lost $7.5 million in 1953, $4.5 million in 1954 and $1.5 million last year, and Smith expects losses to be no lower in 1956. Woman's Home Companion (circ. 4,117,734), which was making a profit until...