Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers in U.S. steel mills want their union (membership: 1,250,000) to push for higher wages? Yes, of course, says the United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, getting ready to call a strike when present contracts run out in early summer. No, says doorbell-ringing Pollster Samuel Lubell, after interviewing steelworkers in ten cities around the U.S. "Of the steelworkers interviewed," reports Lubell this week for United Feature Syndicate, "five of every six are against further wage hikes...
...Johnson, to serve fellow Texans as a legislator. Last week, with all 31 members signing as cosponsors, the Texas senate passed-and sent to an eager house-a bill allowing candidates to file for both statewide office and the U.S. presidency or vice-presidency on the ballot for this summer's Texas primaries. The bill mentioned no names, applied to any candidate. But, explained San Angelo's Dorsey Hardeman, author of the measure: "This might be referred to as the Lyndon Johnson-for-President bill...
...Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev at a summer summit conference...
Plans are underway for a general expansion of the paper. The 18-member staff will be reorganized into several departments, each with an editor and a substaff. During the summer, Miss Winer hopes to increase the group by recruiting talented students and incoming Freshmen through a letter campaign...
...only $500,000 of his own money, borrowed $9,100,000, plus a $3,900,000 mortgage, to take over a company with a book value of $27 million. He started out by painting Washington's buses glaring green and coral, installed shapely stewardesses on streetcars, last summer rolled out 100 new buses (67 of them air-conditioned) in a downtown parade with four bands, bathing beauties, clowns, calypso dancers. Hoopla-and hustling service-paid off with free publicity and profits. Last year Chalk's D.C. Transit System, Inc. earned $500,000, and Chalk finished paying...