Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beachcomber (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists). Asked who discovered the South Sea Islands, a schoolboy once replied: "Somerset Maugham." He was right, of course. Captain Cook found some geographical points, but he missed the emotional one that Sadie Thompson and Ginger Ted, the supreme remittance man in all literature, have supplied to millions. Ted is back again in this second screen version of The Beachcomber. This time Actor Robert Newton sees, as Charles Laughton in the 1939 version failed to, the low, colonial swank of the fellow, and plays it for the snickers it deserves...
...hierarchy of U.S. business, a big problem is the question of executive prerogatives. Who eats in the executive dining room? Who gets the best offices? And when does a man rise high enough to rate a rug on his floor? The scramble for the perquisites of rank is the butt of a thousand jokes, often leads to ludicrous situations. But to corporations themselves, the scramble is no joke. Says John D. Wright, president of Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc.: "This involves a problem of morale, and often the little privileges that go with an office are more important...
...generally, the trend is to more instead of less luxury. An increasing number of companies are coming around to the idea that the trappings of power and rank are normal incentives in U.S. business life. If redecorating an office results in higher morale for a top executive, the company counts the few extra dollars as money well-spent...
Downtown Djakarta sprawls rank and sullen in the fetid subequatorial heat. Wilhelmina Park, once the pride of the city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...
...International Harvester, a key fortress of the Red-led Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers union has been the Rock Island (Ill.) Local 109, with more than 3,000 workers employed at the Farmall tractor works. Two years ago, Local 109 leaders had such a firm grip on the rank and file that the C.I.O. United Auto Workers withdrew an application for an NLRB election for fear of being trounced. Last week the U.A.W. went into a second NLRB election with no intention of quitting...