Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With production down to two-thirds of capacity-and with ample inventory-steel management might have been expected to ride out a strike rather than cut narrowed profit margins any further. Why did the managers agree without a fight? Partly because they acknowledged an obligation to increase fringe benefits, frozen by contract since 1949. But a more significant reason was their high regard for U.S.W. President McDonald. By giving him a fat new contract without trouble, management also gave him increased prestige and power to match up against his old antagonist, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. Said one top steel executive...
Party Line. Hungary, once a limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter...
...year, compared to an average 481,416 a month to date. While cutting down inventories, manufacturers and dealers hope to persuade buyers that mink stoles and 24% discounts are not the normal way of selling cars. But they face a tough job. After years of being taken for a ride when cars were scarce, the U.S. buyer is now firmly in the driver's seat...
After his ride, fast-flying President McGinnis said: "If enough Eastern roads get together, we can jointly order on a wholesale basis. In that case, I'd place an order within months...
...zanne always returned to his home town of Aix-en-Provence. He seemed to thrive best in the sunny, sleepy atmosphere of Provence, with its sloping vineyards bathed in Mediterranean light and its vistas of baked mountains seen though cool green pines. He liked to hire a carriage and ride out to a spot on the road south from Aix where the view of Mount Sainte-Victoire especially appealed to him. There, sitting beneath a pine tree, Cézanne painted the swirling, dramatic picture above, catching on canvas the marvelous interplay of lights and shadows of his beloved Provence...