Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan, Congressman Cecil King's House investigating subcommittee forced the resignation of James B. E. Olson, supervisor of the New York alcohol tax unit, after Olson testified that he had sold liquor labels and truck bodies to, among others, liquor firms under his tax jurisdiction. King's committee also flushed five suspensions and one resignation in New York by asking 20 employees to fill out statements of their net worth. On the strength of such results, the bureau agreed to adopt an annual survey of employee income as part of its routine...
...Federated, the stores mark two big changes. Up till now, it has expanded only by buying other stores. In its nine department stores and 16 branches, whose sales last year totaled $424 million, each store is independent, and does its own buying. But Fedway will be run as a unit with central buying headquarters in New York...
...year or more since Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, Hollywood wonder boys, formed their own producing unit at RKO Radio (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950), they have busied themselves with optimistic announcements and tinkering on movies already in production at the studio. Now, at last, they offer two products of their own: a wacky farce and an unabashed tearjerker. This double-barreled attempt to hit the target with old-fashioned bird shot may well succeed at the box office, but it also blows holes into the bright Wald & Krasna promises of original moviemaking...
...publicity campaign put on by Lewis and his fellow officers. But most of it is probably due to a bright new $12,000 snack bar installed two weeks ago as a gift of graduate members of the Club. The snack bar, composed of a refrigerator unit, sink, and shelves, is stocked with about anything a red-blooded American youth could want--everything, that is, except beer...
Hyde, a daring experimenter, the first to install a Split-P formation, has gone traditional for this game. He will stick with the customary two-platoon system, and no wonder. For the Open defensive unit is one of the finest extant...