Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pick Your Number...
...campaign drew to an end last week, the fact was that Strongman Odria's election had turned out to be so wide open that not even he could pick the winner...
...work on the book, one of the 16 (Fred Allen) has died, four others have lost their regular programs, and two more may not be back on the air next season. "People get tired of you a lot quicker on TV than they do on radio," laments Allen. "They pick you up faster, but they drop you faster...
Three Reefs. In August of 1950, Major Hayter weighed anchor at Lymington and beat his way by easy stages eastward across the Mediterranean, past Suez and down to Aden. He was in no hurry, and he was happy to pick up some spare change by ferrying Moslems across the Red Sea. In India he spent six months working ashore and saving money. Then he sailed on, past Singapore and Surabaya...
...conference to us." But Dave McDonald was jubilant. Actually, for all their apprehensions about joint bargaining, the idea had some attractions for the steelmakers; e.g., in case of deadlock they could present a united employers' front, make it more difficult for the union to negotiate separate agreements and pick them off one by one. By seeming to bow to McDonald's strategy, the steelmen were also boosting the union chief's stock with his men. The industry likes McDonald, a reasonable, conservative unionist, raised by the late Phil Murray from stenographer to become his successor as head...