Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshal Tito, has made the greatest impression on him. "She is the hottest thing in Europe today," says Moviemaker René Clair. In recent months she has become one of the world's most highly paid actresses (about $100,000 a picture). Last month she won the Silver Ribbon, the Italian equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar, as the "Best Actress of 1954" for her performance in Bread, Love and Dreams...
...past few years, suggestion programs have proved so valuable that some 300 companies, Government departments and agencies have banded together in their own National Association of Suggestion Systems to promote the idea. Such blue-ribbon firms as Standard Oil (N.J.), National Biscuit. Sears, Roebuck, Internation al Business Machines, John Hancock Life. American Airlines and Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award...
...Pabst as an officer for the first time in 88 years. Remaining as president is Harris Perlstein, 61, a chemical engineer whose skill and foresight taught the industry that uniform beer could be brewed at widely separated points, and who made Pabst ("What'll You Have?") Blue Ribbon the leader in the move toward coast-to-coast distribution of beer...
There should be no surprises on the 8.6-mile Le Mans course, a crudely rectangular ribbon of asphalt stretched over the gently rolling French countryside. Cunningham, like the rest of the Le Mans drivers, knows it by night & day, and by heart. "Among other things, there's a fog early in the morning. I don't know anything as hair-raising as driving in that fog at 150 m.p.h. It's in patches and moves about the course...
...advertised schedules of 7 hrs. 15 min. nonstop from Los Angeles, and 8 hrs. 40 min. one-stop from San Francisco, were anywhere from 40 min. to 2 hrs. 45 min. faster than competing airlines. Result: large chunks of United's and T.W.A.'s blue-ribbon business have flown off in American...