Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scanlon stayed with the Steelworkers until 1945. In that year, he had spectacular success in the Adamson Company, a small factory in Ohio. Introduction of the plan increased profits 250% and brought bonuses of 54% of wages to the workers. There were two results: the Adamson Company appeared in an article of Life, and Scanlon was invited to M.I.T. to work in the Industrial Relations section, where he is now, dividing his time between teaching and installing the plan...
Taylor, who comes from New Haven, plays the most spectacular game on the N.C. squad. His quick, aggressive play, coupled with decisiveness at net, mean that few points ever develop into baseline rallying...
...with his freshness of dramatic invention, Menotti has been more successful at putting opera over in the U.S. than any other composer of his own generation. English Composer Benjamin Britten has had spectacular success in grand opera houses with his bigger and more traditional opera Peter Grimes, and his chamber operas Albert Herring and Let's Make an Opera are successful in Britain and Europe. His lone Broadway production, The Rape of Lucretia, was a flop...
Britain's dingy, cotton-weaving city of Lancaster (pop. 50,250) has lost most of the glamour and importance that clung to its name in the days of John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses. But it cherishes today one spectacular bloom in the person of its dashing Tory M.P., Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, 39, whose recently published bestseller, Eastern Approaches, has made its author one of the most popular political figures in the United Kingdom...
Mikkola's squad figures to win, possibly carrying off as many as 65 points, and it should be a fairly spectacular run for the second slot...