Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will show U.S. citizens where to go to study the history and philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined, "I've got an undertaker friend...
...fell in behind Armour, but Swift and Wilson held out. Swift agreed to the wage raises but balked at new fringe benefits and insisted on wage cuts in seven of its Southern plants to make "costs competitive with other plants in the same areas." As a result, the unions pulled out 18,000 workers at Swift plants in 34 cities, started to pull out 5,500 Wilson workers in seven cities, but extended the old contract another week to continue negotiations. ¶ In the tire 10?-an-hour wage increases to more than 80,000 workers, narrowly averting a strike...
...Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour overtime schedule to handle the torrent of telegrams. (Higher above Capitol Hill, workmen discovered that the Goddess of Freedom on top of the dome was coming apart at the seams, and a bronze girdle was ordered to pull her together again...
...29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose money there, "for the foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests for the long pull; he expects investments to take ten years, or even 20, to pay off. Some never do. He has lost heavily on a company to build steel prefab houses (buyers did not buy) and another to tin tuna in Samoa (the fish did not bite...
...country where a dedicated Communist (Premier Gomulka) collaborates with a dedicated Catholic (Cardinal Wyszynski) to check both hothead Marxists and anti-Marxists. The result, reports Gibney, can sometimes be as bewildering as that wondrous two-headed animal of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories, the "Push-me Pull...