Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designed to dent the labor-union corruption and thug rule exposed by Arkansas' John McClellan's labor-management racketeering committee, the Kennedy-Ives bill required unions to 1) hold periodic secret-ballot elections, and 2 ) submit to the Labor Department full reports on their financial and other dealings. Tough-minded John McClellan himself endorsed the bill as a ''first step" that would "give important protection to the rights of workers, of management and the public...
...York in 1955. They also found that as a teenager. Suzy had married, and then in 1953 got a divorce. Relenting last week, unlucky Pierre confessed that it was all true, declared that he and Suzy had been advised by a Hollywood press-agent to keep their marriage secret because there is something more glamorous about a Hollywood star who is single. "I am a Frenchman," Pierre said superfluously, "and I have difficulty understanding how this should...
...secret of his new steadiness surprises Turley himself with its simplicity: he has learned how to breathe. Before every pitch, he takes a deep, relaxing breath, and "it loosens my shoulder muscles." Turley considers pitching "an exercise in psychology," is willing and anxious to learn from anyone who can help. From Don Larsen he learned the no-wind-up style that aids his control and concentration. From careful observation of his own failures, he learned to shorten his stride so that he no longer bangs his right elbow against his left knee when he follows through after a pitch. Unnecessary...
Last week Raytheon won a $6,000,000 contract for the electronic controls of the Navy's new surface-to-air Tartar missile, announced a $6,000,000 contract for development of a radically new sonar system for atomic submarines. To manufacture top-secret communications equipment for the Air Force, the firm is shopping around for a huge new factory that will add one-sixth more capacity to its plants, which are scattered from Massachusetts to California...
...items have given rise to such extravagant claims as royal jelly, the creamy substance produced by nurse bees to nourish the long-lived queen bee in the hive. When it came out, women swarmed around the beauty counters, attracted by ads that called royal jelly "the secret of eternal youth." More than a dozen cosmetic houses rushed to put it in high-priced creams, soaps, even lipsticks. (France's house of Orlane, reasoning that the bees got their jelly from flowers, went one better and put on the U.S. market a cream "created from the precious pollen...