Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Kroehler Co. the U.N. had ordered 1,858 plush "theater-type chairs," for its General Assembly. Last week the upholsterers struck. The peace conference failed to win them back to work. It looked as if 1,858 U.N. delegates and auditors would have to sit unplushed...
...powerful Iron and Steel Federation had refused to supply men to sit on the Government's "control board" supervising nationalization. Dryly, the Economist explained the reason why: "It may clear a man's mind wonderfully to know that he is to be hanged in the morning, but it shows some want of tact to expect him to tie the noose." After months of scrapping and haggling with the steel industry, Minister of Supply Wilmot announced sharp curtailment of the authority of the "control board": henceforth it will supervise renovation of the steel industry but will not plan...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
...done nothing at all to relieve their worries over rising costs. To protect themselves against contract squeezes (as well as to make more profit), builders almost unanimously clamored for a lifting of the $10,000 lid on veterans' housing. (Some had even gone on what amounted to a sit-down strike for a free market; new-building "starts" began to fall off in June...
...hero Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) hires on to help a tough old millionaire out of a bit of blackmail. Before he even knows her, one of the old man's daughters (Martha Vickers), a thumbsucking type with beautiful legs, indicates her depravity by trying, as the detective says, to sit on his lap while he is standing up. Her elder sister looks like, and is Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Humphrey Bogart); she seems to be interested in buying Marlowe out of the case, either by fiscal or physical currency. Still another compensation (Dorothy Malone), after only a few minutes' talk...