Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel elated," said Winner Battle, "but I do feel it's a great victory for Virginia." Replied Loser Miller: "This is but the first round...
...designer may never be found out until the day of judgment," Neutra goes on, "but if he supplies his victims with a daily round of tiny or coarse irritations, unwittingly or not, he's a menace. It's the little sore we overlook which later proves malignant. To be used to having a telephone pole in front of your view window does not make it wholesome. Bad acoustics can lead to shouting, and this calls forth an argumentative mood...
Bigger & Better. Heartened by La Jolla's success, stagestruck Hollywood has a much bigger project under way. Peck, with the newly formed Actors' Company,' plans to build a $2,000,000 showplace housing a year-round theater in Beverly Hills. Former RKO Chief Peter Rathvon heads the company; its other officers are Peck, Ferrer, Rosalind Russell and Producer Jerry Wald. The project calls for the production of six plays a year for a run of at least six weeks each, with every member of a star-cluttered board of directors already agreed to appear every season...
...weeks in the spring of 1948 while John L. Lewis' coal strike was on. Instead, Olds contented himself with asserting that Big Steel's ability to pay had nothing to do with the case. Said he: "There is no justification at this time for a fourth round . . . I do not believe it would be good for the economy...
While the Manhattan hearings held the spotlight, the Administration itself struck an oblique blow for a fourth round of wage raises. Under the Walsh-Healey Act it has the power to set minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...