Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Power & Push. His first successful reach for big power came in 1940, when he was made negotiating chairman of the Central States Drivers Council, for which he talked contract for over-the-road drivers of twelve states. This kind of power was there for any aggressive man to grab. International President Dan Tobin, growing ineffectual after more than 30 years in office, was little more than a figurehead ruler of a vast, decentralized realm of baronies. In the Far West a redheaded baron named Dave Beck was already capitalizing on organizational weaknesses that fairly cried for a strong hand; stealthily...
...only out-of-town papers to reach Boston in any quantity were New Hampshire Publisher William Loeb's daily Manchester Union Leader (circ. 48,575) and Sunday News (40,000). Neanderthal Republican Loeb (TIME, May 20), who frequently vents his spleen in terrible-tempered Page One editorials, e.g., an attack on President Eisenhower headed "Dopey Dwight," happily stepped up his press runs to 90,000 daily and 100,000 on Sunday and reported a sellout. The Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After...
Edsel will have to burn up the road to reach its goal. Though most of the industry has scaled 1957's sales forecast down to about 5.8 million cars, production last week was still rolling along at a rate of better than 6,000,000 cars annually, building up an inventory of unsold cars that is beginning to weigh heavily on dealers. As of Aug. 1, U.S. auto dealers had 750,808 unsold 1957 models, 7% less than 1955's record production year, but 22% more than in August last year...
...trip from New York to London for $469.20 (v. $522 for bigger lines), New York to Oslo for $472.20 (v. $590.60). Says Nicholas Craig, president of the line's U.S. subsidiary, which operates the transatlantic business: "For years the airlines have talked about bringing trans-ocean travel within reach of everybody's pocketbook. We've done something about...
...copies is off the presses. Reader's Digest has paid $100,000 for the right to run a condensation in Reader's Digest Condensed Books. The novel's movie rights have been sold for $100,000. This time, apparently, Cozzens in going to reach beyond that loyal band of fans whom Critic John Mason Brown has dubbed "the many few, more than a coterie, less than a crowd...