Word: roto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latching onto the 1,000 employees of Roto-Broil Corp. (electric broilers), one crooked local was so helpful as to allow the management (1956 gross: $10 million) to keep about $23,000 in check-off dues. In most other instances Dio-controlled "unions" were nothing beyond fronts for extortion thugs, who sent their worried victims into the arms of Equitable Research Associates, Inc. For handsome fees Equitable saw to it that employers were never bothered by Dio's union organizers. Equitable's boss: Johnny...
...regional roundups were more effective than the general CBS coverage. CBS's news desk overscreened its commentators, leaving them time and again with little to say that they had not said half an hour earlier. On CBS it sometimes appeared that there were more commercials (for Roto-Broil and Prestone) than election returns...
...Hoyt said the Post was on a "shakedown cruise." The new plant had proved more expensive to operate than the old one. Also, the Post had had to continue to print its roto section in Chicago until it could shift the job to the new plant this month. Said Hoyt: "It's been like maintaining two wives and two domiciles...
...bubbles-moved to Mrs. Bor-roto's heart. She died quickly. With astonishing frankness, the doctor jotted down his action on a hospital record. He signed her death certificate, and left. Last week, 25 days later, a nurse at the hospital read the record, noted the lethal injection, reported to her superiors. Hospital officials reported to the authorities'. Confronted by the sheriff, Dr. Sander calmly admitted that he had caused Mrs. Borroto's death...