Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people cheerfully credit the construction of the new city hall to the financial acumen and persuasiveness of Mayor Hawrelak. Inheriting a $1,500,000 building fund when he took office five years ago, he fattened it from such civic windfalls as the $647,000 plum gained from a favorable turn of the exchange rate on borrowed U.S. dollars. By the time Hawrelak persuaded his fellow citizens to forgo other desperately needed civic improvements to start the city hall, he had the cash in sight...
...inside, Songwriter Dick Rodgers was greeted by his longtime mate in music, Oscar Hammerstein II. Unobtrusively, they paced the outer fringes of a noisy, cluttered stage, paused beneath a blackboard reading CINDERELLA RUN-THROUGH-FULL CAST. "This is no-script day," said Hammerstein. There were 21 days left to turn the scullery maid of an idea-a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella-into the glittering color spectacular CBS promises to deliver live to the TV audience on Sunday, March 31, from...
...Jersey's teeming (pop. 700,000) Hudson County, where annual county and city elections are among the liveliest in the U.S., newsmen who are willing to turn out speeches and publicity for political candidates have long found a rewarding short-term market for their talents. Reporters on Sam Newhouse's Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly as political pressagents. The opposition Hudson Dispatch, the county's only other comparable pool of literary talent, has traditionally barred its employees from participating in political campaigns, while the Journal's policy has been to grant...
...York City, an ill and exhausted refugee from Communist imprisonment and the German bombardment of Warsaw. But in the decade before he died, he planted the Lubavitcher movement deep in the U.S. He organized "Torah Missions," and set up Lubavitcher Bible classes, founded a publishing house to turn out textbooks in English and Hebrew, dispatched missionaries all over the world. After his death in 1949, he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Menachem Mendel, who, like all Rebbes, added Schneerson to his name in honor of Founder Shneur Zalman...
...Labor Department reported that employment in February rose by 612,000 workers to a new monthly record of 63.1 million, largely wiping out the extra-heavy January decline. Unemployment also took a better turn, dropped by 123,000 to a total of 3,121,000 jobless. U.S. factory hands earned an average $82.41 a week, a new record for the month. And with hourly earnings of $2.05, the workingman had the highest wage level of all time...