Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some alarm, the Dallas P.T.A. council last week urged the board of education to take stern measures-and quickly. The board warmly received one P.T.A. suggestion that all married students be banned from extracurricular activities next year. A second P.T.A. idea-consigning married students to separate schools-seemed a bit startling at first gulp. Mused one board member: "We already have a racial segregation problem here. Are we about to face a marriage segregation problem...
...notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain No. 2 (Quinn), a G.B.G. who turns out to be a B.B.G.-the sort of lowdown skunk that makes his girl friend keep him. So the scriptwriter rings in Hero No. 2 (Widmark), a G.B.G. who develops into a G.G.G. and goes after...
...chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense plant chief inspector, car-assem bly superintendent, assistant master mechanic, boss of a new "process develop-ment" section searching to make prod- ucts more efficiently. Says Knudsen: "As long as you're interested enough to take any job that comes along, you'll find something worthwhile to do, and it usually turns out to be a better job than the last one." By the time he was 43, he had performed chores in no fewer than 106 G.M. plants...
...grandma image" in the customer's mind. He wanted to change it so "teenagers would shout, 'Cool, man, real cool.'" The 1957 Pontiac was only 30 days from pilot production, just 60 days from volume production. Walking around the car, Knudsen announced abruptly: "Let's take the silver streaks off. That's the biggest change we can make." The stylists were shocked. They reminded the new boss that Big Bill Knudsen himself was the onec who introduced the streaks, in 1935. But off they went, the first move to face-lift grandma...
...steps up military passenger and cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial carriers. The airlines worry that jet passenger transports will be but the first step in converting MATS' $1.2 billion fleet of aircraft into a $3 billion jet operation that will take away even more commercial business. Pan American World Airways is postponing its decision to buy new cargo jets until it finds out whether it must compete against a MATS jet fleet...