Word: plumper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Russel Grouse, 73, the plumper half of Broadway's dynamic duo, Lindsay and Grouse, whose 32 years of cooperative writing produced such star-spangled hits as Life with Father, State of the Union and The Sound of Music; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Grouse was a press agent in 1934 when Playwright Howard Lindsay asked his help on a rewrite of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. "We don't complement, we supplement each other," said Lindsay afterward, and the two went on to conceive twelve plays and musicals locked together in a room, the impeccable, reserved Lindsay...
...fact, most high school stars with a notion of making it in the pros don't apply to Ivy League colleges anyway. A halfback can build a much bigger reputation (and command a much plumper bonus) if he goes to Texas rather than Brown...
...their least-efficient, highest-cost equipment but were encountering the kind of optimum demand that tempts them to hike prices. With unemployment down to an eight-year low of 4.5%, labor shortages were showing up in more and more key areas, and workers felt that they could demand plumper pay. Strikes broke out in several industries from coal mining to cookie making...
...offer of a 40.6? hourly wage increase for a 35-month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
...firm into a dozen operating departments that are only loosely supervised from above. A department general manager is like a captain on a ship, free to chart his own course so long as he meets schedules and wins battles, and he has a broader field of command and a plumper paycheck than most company presidents-often $250,000. Half of the general managers control sales of more than $100 million annually, and the one who runs the biggest department-textile fibers-is responsible for close to $1 billion...