Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded as cocky as ever. "We earned in excess of $22 million in the last nine months of 1947 on a one-shift operation," said Edgar Kaiser, "[and] we should do as well this year." But Wall Streeters, who had shown their hopes and fears about K-F in the ups & downs of the stock, were worried again. Wall Street thought that Cyrus Eaton of Otis & Co., an old K-F friend turned enemy (TIME, Feb. 23), was dumping 45,000 shares of K-F stock he held. It helped drive down the price to 8 7/8 at week...
...conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit undeveloped fields in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia...
...four-year term (his fourth) would have made his tenure too long.* Politicians suspected that Parran, who had been New York health commissioner under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, was just one more New Dealer dealt out. Medical experts thought that Parran's leaving, among other things, represented a shift in emphasis: perhaps there will be less work on infectious diseases like syphilis, more on the degenerative diseases and cancer...
Within Stillman Infirmary's ironclad confines, Miss Morency and Miss O'Donnell, now working off their two-year shift as night nurses, say they would just as soon change sheets by candlelight, since it gives them much time to get outdoors during the day. Many nurses do night duty while they are attending school during the days...
...patrolmen, huddled in their squadcar on a windswept corner of the Square, just laughed when asked if they had chosen to work the all-night shift. "I really don't mind it" said one stubble-chinned old sergeant, "but the young fellows don't care too much for it. They'd rather be out with the women, I guess...