Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though stating that he was not trying to "take over" trucking in New York, Hoffa said that there was a need for further organization. If all trucking entering New York is not well organized, wage standards will break down. Trucks coming from the South where there are low wage scales...
Probably the most fascinating record of Eastern music ever made, the Ragas are played by three instruments: drums, a drone-type stringed instrument, and a melodic stringed instrument. The drummer starts setting up complex rhythm often based on seven beats, over which the melody instrument improvises an increasingly complicated part...
Died. Fred Allen (real name: John Florence Sullivan), 61, radio and TV humorist whose topical, misanthropic wit and acidity reached its peak in the early '40s on the radio show Town Hall Tonight, which included his wife Portland Hoffa and such zany denizens of Allen's Alley as...
Asserting that "the city has never stinted on salaries," DeGuglielmo assailed Fortune's complaint that pay scales are too low by saying that "most of the planners use city jobs as stopgaps while they shop around for better positions." He added that "the whole thing looks like a power play...
Even when they believed that Ike could not run again, the leaders of his own party did nothing to build up another candidate. They demonstrated that the Republican Party was not yet ready for victory without Eisenhower. He and a substantial part of the people believe that what his Administration...