Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devised a productivity norm. In Parker's case, it was the fiscal year March 1953 through February 1954. He then arranged that the savings on output made at less than the costs of the base year figure (as measured by sales value) should go into a bonus pool. A fourth of the pool money was automatically set aside as a reserve fund to be paid out in the break-even or deficit months when no bonus was earned. The rest of the melon-made up of increased value through productivity savings-was split; labor got a whopping 75%, management...
...French general with eight police inspectors, 30 gendarmes and a section of paratroopers drew up in a hurry outside the Hotel des Thermes in Madagascar one day last week. They came not to try the golf course, to splash in the pool or to take the waters (which are said to be good for that old weakspot of Frenchmen, the liver). They came instead to see a splendidly installed prisoner, the exiled Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. French General Georges Catroux, 78, found His Majesty waiting for him in a nearby villa once occupied by Aly Khan...
...picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
Wouks' first son, Abraham, was drowned in a Mexican swimming pool in 1951, when he slipped out of the house early one morning to sail a toy boat his father had given...
WEST GERMAN BANKING, decentralized by occupation authorities to break its monopoly of German credit, is concentrating its power again. After several years of under-the-counter deals, three of West Germany's biggest banks have come out in the open to organize a common profit-and-loss pool, thus in effect, fuse their $1,622,000,000 in combined assets into one big bank. Their goal: to resurrect the Deutsche Bank...