Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought lots of food to stuff her refrigerator. Even when Barbra was in Funny Girl we used to bring in chicken soup and brownies to her dressing room. I guess what I missed most about Barbra's not being home was the trips we used to take to the beach and the lollipops she always gave me when I stopped in to see her at the Chinese restaurant where she worked...
...Rock. Can our Rozzie take it? Her first appearance with Sullivan was only her fifth in front of an audience, and it showed. She had whittled off 60 Ibs., but she wore a matronly gown and clenched her hands nervously. She was hardly more relaxed a week later in the nightclub atmosphere of San Francisco's hungry i. But there is that Streisand voice, strong and crystalline, making up in depth and force what it lacks in experience and subtlety...
Many businessmen are tied to spending plans formulated months ago. The rising cost of money has prompted U.S. Steel to review its $600 million-plus 1969 spending plans, but any cuts could not even begin to take effect until September. Before it crimps corporate spending, the monetary squeeze will spread unevenly through other sectors of the economy...
Whether problems are created on the drawing board or crop up during manufacture, human error is almost always involved. Auto executives privately complain that today's assembly-line workers, who earn $5.50 an hour in wages and fringe benefits, tend to take less pride in their jobs than their elders. American Motors had to recall 750 cars over the past year because workers carelessly installed the wrong alternators, which did not generate enough current to keep the batteries fully charged under heavy loads. To overcome lax workmanship on the production line, G.M.'s Buick Division not long...
Both Ford and the U.A.W. are concerned about the fact that recent lay offs have hit hardest at low-seniority Negroes. To protect their jobs, the union proposed a system of "inverted senior ity" by which veterans could voluntarily take layoffs before newcomers...