Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only that, but many farmers are buying more and more land on which to farm. One result: average farm real estate value per acre rose from $100.39 m March to $104.80 on Nov. 1, reflecting the drive by farmers to expand their acreage base in order to take advantage of present prices and farm price supports...
...inhibited the growth of unions or their functions as bargaining agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must take many more grievance cases, often trivial ones, to arbitration lest the union members withdraw from the local on grounds that they are not being ably represented...
...Superba. Checker Motors Corp., makers of Checker taxicabs, next month will begin production of a family-type passenger car called the Superba, which it claims will "perform like a pleasure car and take punishment like a taxicab." The new car, powered by a six-cylinder engine, will be about 198 in. long and somewhat higher and narrower than most U.S. cars, sell in the $2,500 price range...
...Want to Live! (Figaro; United Artists). "When you hear the pellets drop," says the kindly guard to the beautiful doll as he buckles her into the cyanide chamber, "take a deep breath and count ten. It's easier that way." The beautiful doll only flings him a sardonic question: "How do you know?" Barbara Graham (Susan Hay ward), according to this skillful screen version of the life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found...
...however, angry words are being spilled over bowls of dull pineapple chunks. The Radcliffe honor system, about the only virtuous thing left in the world these days, is seen doomed; and kuties who cultivate the seedy demeanor are complaining that now they will have to dress-up when they take integrated finals...