Word: styles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style managerial class is rising...
...contrast to his classic, gang-style death, Roger Touhy was buried quietly, with no flowers, no eulogies, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, known as the Boot Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is also buried there, and near the Touhy plot is a grave site reserved for Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo, kingpin of Chicago's rackets, and present unchallenged boss of the Capone...
...indifferent to your wrongs." But John L., born in Lucas, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, a Welsh coal miner's son who quit school after the seventh grade to dig coal in underground pits, a union organizer with a shock of red hair and red eyebrows and a Shakespearian style, fought his way to the top of the U.M.W. to change all that...
...fast that Britain's Institute of Directors lists 25,000 members; a decade ago there were only 400. Also spreading is the U.S. style of low-markup, high-volume operation. Germany's Mail-Order Magnate Joseph Neckerman has grown into a sort of Teutonic Sears, Roebuck in fewer than ten years. He sells a list of 5,500 items through 22 mail-order stores, 48 special-appliance stores, and by undercutting the competition as much as 25%, tots up sales of $125 million annually. Says Neckerman, expounding a U.S. philosophy: "The consumer is king...
...Elements of Style, Strunk and White...