Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Correspondent Steele. 39, came to TIME from the United Press in 1953, first covered Capitol Hill before he moved over to the White House a little more than a year ago. Since then he has seldom been far away from the President. Because the White House, like a turtle shell, goes wherever its principal occupant goes, the job of being a White House correspondent is by definition an itinerant one. With the President, Steele has crisscrossed the U.S., flown down to Panama and, recently, out to California for the Republican Convention...
...contestant will stand in front of the TV camera and face two gun barrels. He will have a string leading to the triggers on the two barrels. One will be loaded with a dud containing a check for $1,000,000-the other with a live 37mm. shell guaranteed to tear his head off. If he pulls the wrong string-kaputt...
LOBSTER SHORTAGE has sent wholesale prices soaring to $1.25 a pound in New York City, 95? in Portland, Me., v. ten-year average of 50?. Reason: cold spring delayed until recently the lobsters' shell-shedding period, when lobsters are hard to catch, poor eating when caught...
...ships. To handle the day-to-day operations of his empire, Niarchos has recruited some of the world's top shipping brains. His 120-man London staff, quartered in two Georgian mansions in Mayfair, is headed by Reginald John ("Square Rig") Dodds, onetime tanker boss for Shell Tankers, Ltd. which is one of Niarchos' best customers. His Manhattan office is run by Financial Expert Walter Saunders, onetime vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which is one of Niarchos' heaviest backers. Says Niarchos: "My staff makes 60% of the decisions. I make...
...consolidate all automaking at South Bend, leaving the defense business to Curtiss. With its new funds, it will be able to bring out a 1957 Studebaker line on schedule. However it will probably stop making Packards for a year, wait until 1958, when it can develop an interchangeable body shell with Studebaker along the lines of its Packard Predictor dream car. Another possibility: that West Germany's Daimler-Benz will come in on the agreement, use Studebaker's dealer setup to distribute Mercedes cars and trucks in the U.S. Eventually, Studebaker might also build Mercedes products...