Word: shakings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest shake of all was given Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, 55, the slight, reserved general manager of the Buick Motor division. He was moved up to the newly created job of G.M. executive vice president in charge of all nonproduction activities except finance (labor relations, public relations, etc.) The promotion...
...shake-up was Charlie Wilson's way of moving a new and younger production team into G.M.'s top spots to give G.M. new teeth for the coming dog-eat-dog competition in the automobile business. Furthermore, the team will be ready to take over completely when some of the older top executives, now close to the compulsory retirement age,* step down. (The gossip was that two or three of them would retire shortly...
...dozens of eggs and tomatoes. He was hit at least nine times, splattered by near misses five times. In Hickory, N.C., two rotten eggs plopped near him. Cried Wallace bitterly: "As Jesus Christ told his disciples, if at any town they will not listen to you will ingly, then shake the dust from your feet and go elsewhere."* He shook off the dust of Hickory...
...courage for a new hairdo, Collier's looked in the mirror-and decided to make some changes. The new Look and the Saturday Evening Post, smartened up by Editor Ben Hibbs, were proving far too attractive for Collier's comfort. This week, following an editorial shake-up (TIME, June 7), Collier's underwent a face-lifting and put on a new dress...
Your account of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss debate is a masterpiece of "bend-ing-over-backwards" fairness. Would like to shake your collective hand...