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...handle the mailing and sale A.T.&T. leased one of Wanamaker's block-square vacant buildings in Manhattan, hired 1,240 temporary employees, set up a line of special desks and files a block long to handle the biggest "stock book" in history. It also set up a telephone room with 20 operators to handle 800 inquiries a day, opened information counters in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and New York to serve stockholders. Total cost of the operation...
...Westinghouse four years after he first went to work for the company. President Gwilym A. Price, the man who hired him, continues to hold on to the top spot for the present, but indicated the shape of things to come by also stepping into the post of board chairman, vacant since 1951. Cresap, a Harvard Business School graduate (by way of Williams College), was helping boss his own Chicago-New York management-advisory firm when Gwilym Price dropped in to ask for a survey of Westinghouse's efficiency. Cresap's report was such a hit that the company...
...house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue looked deserted. The windows, shorn of their rich hangings, had a vacant look about them, and on the White House gates there were neat, white wooden signs: CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Inside the mansion, a sander went to work in the East Room, smoothing away pits and scars on the quartered-oak parquet floor. By week's end the floor was ready for filling and waxing. This week a crew of maintenance men will move in to fix the floors, touch up the paneling in the State Dining Room, and dry-clean the soiled...
...confirmed by two twelve-year-old boys who had seen strange men carrying heavy cases into a vacant building. Detectives quietly swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...
NEAR the home of TIME Correspondent Monica Dehn in Jerusalem are two vacant lots that became the sites for major rallies during the election campaign in Israel. For a correspondent covering the campaign, this was a great convenience; but for the mother of two small children (Monica is the wife of London Timesman David Roy Elston), it was a towering nuisance. Before rallies, campaign managers spent half the nights tuning up loudspeakers, one to outblast the other. One midnight some 50 babies of the neighborhood could be heard bawling as loudspeakers blared over and over: "One, two, three...