Word: topping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Upstarts. On hand to help launch the new organization was a platoon of top U.S. labor leaders, including aging William Green and dynamic David Dubinsky of the A.F.L., straight-talking Walter Reuther and diplomatic Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen...
...Before he grimaced goodbye an hour later, televiewers were served a mishmash of old jokes, orchestral soloists, and dazed quiz contestants whose stumbling answers to the simplest questions have been part of the College's peculiar fascination for the ten years it has been a top-ranking radio show...
George Cameron, 40, struck it rich in Colorado's Rangely oilfield. After drilling 40 productive wells in a row, with an annual income of $600,000 pouring relentlessly on top of his previously oil-won millions, he settled down in Tulsa, Okla. But the new-found leisure bored him. "Oil just means more money," he complained, "I can't sleep with it. I have no sense of doing or accomplishing anything...
...such plans, fearing that they will lead to the speedup. To that the council replies: not so. Profit sharing simply eliminates waste and carelessness. Said Clarence Wimpfheimer: "It is not a method of chiseling wages down. You establish a decent basic wage, and you put the profit sharing on top of that...
...some old newsreel clips of the real Seabiscuit's most spectacular races. Also rans: Barry Fitzgerald as the horse's jabbering trainer, and Shirley Temple, insufficiently disguised by a brogue. Loaded with the bipeds' lame Irish humor and a desultory romance, the picture carries a top handicap which it never overcomes...