Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Compete." Today, Harry Morrison runs an empire of 36 subsidiaries, eleven other companies, has more than 3,660 pieces of heavy equipment. MK's 1953 gross totaled $287 million, its profits a record $5,761,000, an impressive figure in an industry where competitive bids often shave profits paper-thin. Besides heavy basic construction, M-K is now expanding into factories and laboratories. In 1950, M-K bought 98% of Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., one of the top U.S. constructors of industrial buildings, for $2,650,000, has put it to work on Pittsburgh...
...midst of a stormy week, Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy struck a brawny pose for an intimate picture snapped in the bathroom of his Washington home, where he lathered up his heavy beard for a shave. Meanwhile, some 600 University of Texas students rallied in protest against the choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...railroads asked for a 45% increase for carrying first-class mail. But when Postmaster Arthur Summerfield start ed giving more business to planes and buses, the railroads backed down fast, were glad to take a 10% hike. Railroadmen feel that if they could set their own rates and shave them quickly to meet competition, the ICC could concentrate on preventing regional discrimination, stopping cutthroat competition and guarding against shenanigans in railroad management...
They have drawn up rules for the new order, which they hope will be approved officially by the bishop and later by Rome. Members must take the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, plus a fourth pledge: to bury the dead. Brothers must shave their heads and wear full-length beards, never smoke, drink wine or eat meat, and never leave their cemetery except for necessity. Postulants must serve a six-month trial period before becoming novices, and must remain novices for two years before being accepted as members of the community. "We are the mystic dead," explains Hilarion...
...with his wife. Pierre entered their room, gripping his shotgun. Marie slipped out of bed. Pierre fired. The first shot fractured Jean's shoulder. "You're crazy!" Jean shouted, but a second shot silenced him forever. Next day, Pierre bicycled to the local barber shop, got a shave and a haircut, then went to the police station and reported calmly that his daughter had just killed her husband. The gendarmes, when they got to the Talabard farm, handed Marie the shotgun and asked her to fire it. She did not even know how to hold it. Wearily, Louise...