Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards cheered him along the hallway: "Give 'em hell, Walter," "Go get 'em, old Redhead...
...five-story-high trading room of the New York Stock Exchange, activity ceased one morning last week as Exchange Chairman Edward C. Werle stepped onto the balcony, sounded a bell, pounded his gavel and read a statement. In an action rarely taken, the exchange censured and fined the partners of Garvin, Bantel & Co. $25,000, suspended Senior Partner George K. Garvin from trading for three months...
...runs away twice more, and each time returns sick, hungry and shaken by sexual collisions. Townspeople call him a voyou-a hooligan-and he plays the part to the hilt, scrawling obscenities in front of the church. But, barricaded in his room after a night of sousing, the voyou is also a voyant-a seer. One day a summons comes from Paris; a friend has mailed samples of Claude's work to famed Poet Maurice Druard. The older writer leaves his wife, and with him Claude lives in a green haze of absinthe. Egged on by Druard...
According to firemen on the scene, the blaze started in the basement corridor outside the band room. Rising along the stairway, it spread through the entire building, creating extensive damage on the second and third floors. Most of the interior of the Club, in the words of one fireman, was "gutted...
...addition to this damage, which Kirklin estimated to be around $2000, about two-thirds of the band's music was destroyed or damaged by fire and water. Over a foot of water had accumulated in the band room...