Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vandenberg's policies. Twining is near retirement age. President Eisenhower was thus able to appoint him for two years instead of the usual four, and still reserve the chance to appoint youngish (46) General Lauris Norstad, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, to the top Air Force rung before the next presidential term...
...Pont showed a 14% increase in sales ($440 million) and a 12% increase in profits ($53.9 million) over 1952's first quarter. While the second biggest company, Union Carbide & Carbon, was not far behind (sales up 12% and profits up 10%), some of the biggest gains were rung up by the smaller companies. Thus Mathieson Chemical's $4,700,000 net was a 79% increase, Rohm & Haas's $1,700,000 a 28% increase...
Westinghouse's engineers, given free rein, also brought forth an operatorless elevator,* which promises to revolutionize city office-building transportation. Each car not only operates itself electrically (it will not stop at a floor where no one has rung), but coordinates its operation with every other car in the system, so that no two stop at the same floor...
...rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last. Soup-opera books have a further important characteristic: after modest-sized editions in hard covers, they go quickly into huge editions in paperback-and become the reading of millions. The Birds and the Bees by James Aswell is a typical sample of the species...
...Treasurer Albert Russel Erskine wanted to install a new accounting system in EMF; Vance objected that it wouldn't work. He half expected to be fired. Instead, when Erskine became president, he made Vance assistant treasurer. Vance moved to South Bend in 1919, slowly worked up every rung of the Studebaker ladder. By the time depression struck, he was production vice president and a director, while Paul Hoffman, now president of the Ford Foundation, was vice president in charge of sales...