Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owned two Cadillacs, splashed in a heated swimming pool, entertained 1,500 guests a year in their $100,000 house. Five pages of pictures highlighted them as a "lucky" U.S. family in LIFE'S "Special Issue on the American Woman" (Dec. 24, 1956). They shot elephants in Africa, spent holidays in Hawaii, toured the Holy Land, knocked about Europe...
However efficiently the Inquirer's head count has been brought down, rival newsmen wonder privately if the paper has not spent good money to get rid of good men. But the Inquirer professes pleasure with the results. The resignations, said Stewart Hooker, director of personnel and labor relations, "have made a staff reduction of about the size we told the guild initially we felt we should have...
...wartime buddy (James Daly). Left alone with the buddy, the bride ruefully sums up the first 36 hours of life with hubby: he shakes with an uncontrollable psychosomatic tremor, drinks incessantly "to keep warm," on their wedding night leaped at her like a satyr, frightening her so much she spent the whole night sitting up in a chair...
...Martha Duff, a fragment of another essay might be ample justification for a life spent in the jungle: "This is my school . . . Here some time ago I came ... I didn't know a thing then . . . Now, already, I know several things...
Ralph Cordiner has thrown all of G.E.'s energy and know-how into the atomic future. The company has $1.5 billion in Government contracts and more than $100 million in private contracts, has committed more men (14,000) to atomics, and spent more of its own money ($20 million) to build research facilities, than any other company. So far it has not made a dime on commercial business, but its hopes for the future are bright...