Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lock-ins were just one part of the Communist strategy of harassment. Last year, one U.S. executive had hired a group of workers for a specific 35-day project. They did the work and he paid them off. Last week, 250 of the workers stormed into his office and demanded reinstatement as full-time employees. After 15 hours of negotiation, the executive got off by paying the men an additional 35 days' wages each. "Actually," he said, "I was lucky, but how do I explain that to the boys back at the home office...
Last November's elections were a big shot in the arm for Coar's project. When the dust had settled, it was speedily noted that not one of the Republicans defeated at the polls had used Coar's service. Now the new Democrats and the surviving Republicans are keeping the microphones so busy that the studio wiped out its $10,000 deficit in June and grossed about $13,000 last month...
Bigger & Better. Heartened by La Jolla's success, stagestruck Hollywood has a much bigger project under way. Peck, with the newly formed Actors' Company,' plans to build a $2,000,000 showplace housing a year-round theater in Beverly Hills. Former RKO Chief Peter Rathvon heads the company; its other officers are Peck, Ferrer, Rosalind Russell and Producer Jerry Wald. The project calls for the production of six plays a year for a run of at least six weeks each, with every member of a star-cluttered board of directors already agreed to appear every season...
...convinced," concludes Serrano, "that ixbut increases milk flow. By analysis, I know that this increment is actually milk and not water, as I originally suspected. We must still isolate the agent that causes the increase [a project which Merck & Co. will work on] and learn how it works." Serrano could rule out the milk-producing hormone prolactin: it did not enable his wife to nurse her four babies. But ixbut...
Woods had simply turned the project over to an architect friend, who had got the job done. The architect's fee was $400 for each of the first two houses, but would be shaved to $50 each on a mass-production basis. Woods's profit: $350 a house...