Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then everyone sat back for the dull part. Reason: London's Stock Exchange does not close until 4:30 p.m., and no Chancellor tips his hand until the day's trading is finished. Accordingly, Rab Butler started slowly. In 3½ years of Tory stewardship, he reported, real wages have risen 6%, earnings of industry 9%. production 10%. But "problems can spring from the very success which it has been our happy lot to achieve...
When Fleet Street's publishers sat down with the E.T.U.-A.E.U. to try to end the strike, they found that the union bargainers were almost all Communist Party members. While wages were an issue, there was no doubt that the Communists were taking the opportunity to flex their muscles, show the public that they could hit where it would hurt most...
George Gobel Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). With Jimmy Stewart...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). "Manners," discussed by Margaret Truman, Jacques Barzun, Alistair Cooke, Clifton Fadiman...
Boston Symphony (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Conducted by Charles Munch...