Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things to Come. There are also a few other clouds ahead. Tourist courts and motels are already giving Hilton and other hotelmen hard competition. "We have to keep making our hotels better," says Connie Hilton. "Rooms will have to be larger and they'll have to be soundproofed . . . They...
Even so, many a corporation is still not convinced. Some have tried profit sharing and dropped it because there was no appreciable improvement in worker morale or efficiency. Many unionists also oppose such plans, fearing that they will lead to the speedup. To that the council replies: not so. Profit...
Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of...
The plot focuses on two days in a Southern town where "an arrogant, hard-headed . . . independent Negro" named Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is accused of shooting a white man in the back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when...
Hanoverian Rats. "The Squire," as his acquaintances always called him, was educated at Britain's famed Catholic public school, Stonyhurst College. Earlier teachers had found the boy's passion for nature study so all-absorbing that they had tried to whip it out of him. "But," said the...