Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans may picture refugees as stoic people with babushkas and cardboard suitcases. Actually, they are scared, often hopeless people, and they come with nothing, for baggage in East Germany is a sign of flight or intent to flee-punishable offenses. Though the Communists methodically plug one exit after another into West Germany, 1,000 refugees a day now pour into West Berlin, and authorities expect the figure will eventually climb to as much...
...opened an office in Wadsworth House and immediately began to plug for an infirmary. James Stillman of New York was the first to heed Bailey's plea. He came across with $150,000, and Stillman opened...
Hazards of Fashion. Aside from the hazards of such fads (rebelling designers have threatened to plug such furs as sable and chinchilla), the wild scramble for mutations has confused the public. The real value in a mink coat is the quality of the fur itself and the long hours of skilled workmanship required to make a coat. With the new Jasmine mutation, for example, Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman might pay $4,950 for the skins, $1,800 for the labor.* Rent and other overhead expenses would bring the cost of the coat to $7,300, and Bergdorf...
Sheer Friendliness. Radio Writer-Producer Don (Fibber McGee & Molly) Quinn thinks that "this practice amounts to petty larceny. After all, for me to chisel a part of my sponsor's time to give a free plug to someone else in return for an electrical bicycle pump just plain isn't honest." But Quinn has been unable to get the Radio Writers' Guild or his advertising agency to share his indignation. And he concedes that policing the practice is nearly impossible: "Inevitably, a gag will occur that names a national product. You'd be silly...
...sparkler. Inside a giant blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched a button which fired a rocket through a plug in an open hearth furnace already going, and 250 tons of flaming, molten steel poured into a massive ladle. Thus last week, less than two years after groundbreaking (TIME, March 12, 1951), U.S. Steel's $450 million Fairless Works in Morrisville, Pa., went into operation...