Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river boat began cavorting on the top deck before the packed crowds of Egyptians escaping the city. Below decks in the 200-ton Dandara were hundreds more on holiday-government agricultural experts and their families, who had chartered the boat for the day, bound for the picnic grounds at the Nile Delta Barrage...
...demands for greater wages, fearing that they might cost him his job (TIME, May 4). To refute Lubell, McDonald arranged for seven of his wage-policy committeemen to stand up in public meeting and demand hefty wage raises. Said one: "A lynching bee would look like a Sunday-school picnic compared to what my members would do to me if I told them I voted not to ask for a wage increase...
...tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
...Like a Picnic. Smith also specializes in covering the mob's social functions as an uninvited and unanimously undesirable guest. In 1956 he borrowed a room in a neighboring house to survey a gala Fourth of July garden party flung by No. 1 Mobster Tony Accardo. Stung by all the publicity, Accardo subsequently shifted the party to the home of his chauffeur...
...confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat at. But you're as safe as if you were covering a Sunday-school picnic...