Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHRYSLERS with quickie retrimming job will be wheeled out this month to combat sales slump. Windsor, Saratoga and New Yorker models will have splashier trim all around, sweeping chrome strips along side and rear panels, plus mascara-like black paint around headlights for "space age effect...
...Thrill-Killer Prisoner 9306-D for 33 years, six months and two days walked nervously from Illinois' Stateville penitentiary one day last week. Trim in a prison-made blue suit, paroled Nathan Leopold Jr., 53, took the arm of Lawyer Elmer Gertz, pushed his way to five microphones set up on a nearby road, and over shouts and shutter clicks read a statement to 100-odd newsmen and photographers: "I beg, I beseech you ... to grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself-a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy...
Businessmen are trying to trim as much fat as possible from their own operations. U.S. Steel is setting up its first incentive program for salesmen; in the good old days steel salesmen spent their time explaining why customers had to wait for steel, they must now get out and sell. With a tighter economy, companies are also replacing marginal workers with more efficient hands. Los Angeles' Broadway-Hale Stores has cut employment 7% so far this year, and expects a 4.6% sales decrease. Yet by improving the work force and reducing overhead. President Edward W. Carter expects to keep...
...Eisenhower is not an outdoors woman. On her trim, shapely legs (if you'll pardon the expression) she wears very sheer dark stockings with her black dinner dresses. We found some low-calorie chocolates for her. and she couldn't have been more appreciative had we given her emeralds." Mamie became "homesick" for Ike one night when visiting Pianist Alec Templeton played When You and I Were Young, Maggie. Sighed Mamie: "That's his favorite song...
...CHEVY will be radically redesigned. Scrapping plans for a facelift, General Motors has kicked off a crash program of retooling to make car larger and restyle its rear. To trim remodeling costs, G.M. will build all its future cars (except Cadillac) around one basic body shell instead of the three used...