Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of the bar, discuss terms with "clients," disappear while they slipped the cash into the umbrella. One reported result: when the law wanted to know how he had managed to save $350,000 in eight years on his $50-a-week salary, Umbrella Mike replied, "With great thrift...
...conduct, and supervise business enterprises . . . by and for the benefit of students of Harvard University who are in need of financial assistance . . . to provide experience for its members in the management and conduct of business affairs . . . to foster, encourage, and inculcate in its members qualities and habits of work, thrift, and self-reliance...
Anyone's Guest. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. Shelby Thrift sued Grocery Owner Roy Duvaul for $2,500 damages after having been pecked on the leg by a rooster which she claimed the grocer harbored "knowing it to be of a vicious and mischievous disposition," heard Duvaul insist that the bird was not his, it just "showed up at the store and hung around...
...THRIFT CLASS AIR SERVICE will be airlines' answer to CAB's request for cut in North Atlantic fares. New service would trim U.S.-to-Europe fares by 20%, but offer only sandwich-and-coffee meals, have 34 inches between seats v. 43 inches on tourist flights. Airlines at same time would boost tourist and first-class fares by about 9%, set London-New York rates of thrift class at $252; tourist $315 (up from $290), first class $435 (up from $400). But CAB frowns on "austerity service" and higher rates, may veto plan...
...Thrift is [once again] more than a word," the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star cried happily in mid-1955 when John Baker Hollister, 64, onetime law partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, was named to coordinate U.S. foreign aid. As a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International...