Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANTITRUST STUDY is stirring up a storm for sporting-goods industry. Justice Department suspects collusive pricing and division of markets and products, is quietly going back as far as 1931 to look at records of some 80 sporting-goods makers, five retail and manufacturing associations...
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac immediately took the world by greater storm than any other play in the history of the theatre. And today it still easily holds its position as the towering peak of 19th-century French drama...
Until now, the Dominicans have deliberately hindered the official U.S. investigation, e.g., they furnished what the FBI called a forged "confession" from the man they said killed Pilot Murphy. The sudden switch appeared to be a belated attempt to end a storm of bad publicity. But, even in the agreement with Ernst & Co., there is an escape clause. If the attorneys break the contract "for failure of cooperation," they will "preserve professional confidence and refrain from issuing any report...
Tech's President E. N. Jones protested bitterly to his directors. Students began circulating a petition that accused the board of denying the "right of all men to freedom of speech and the right to voice opinions." By week's end the storm had spread far beyond the borders of the campus. Said the conservative Beaumont Enterprise: "The practice of firing teachers who express opinions on pertinent questions of the day can become a vicious and monstrous thing in any state...
...some lower-salaried groups, or those with short hours, moonlighting is already traditional. Many schoolteachers have always had other jobs. So have firemen, postal workers and policemen. In one New Jersey community the police station is practically a hiring hall for housewives who want seasonal help in putting up storm windows or cleaning cellars. What is new is the rapid spread of moonlighting into high-paying fields where it did not exist before, or was not important. In Akron, where 30,000 rubber workers are on a six-hour day and a six-day week, 50% have more than...