Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious fallout-shelter program is up against was evident in the jeering reception that the task force's report got from much of New York's press. "Ridiculous," cried Long Island's Newsday. "Smells of defeatism," muttered the New York Daily News. In rare agreement, the Wall Street Journal and the Fair Dealish New York Post cried that deterrent power, not shelters, is the only safeguard against nuclear attack...
...been scouring the nation for a man to replace Ogden ("Brownie") Reid, whose family had owned the paper since the death of Founder Horace Greeley in 1872. Whitney's lieutenants consulted the roster of U.S. press bigwigs, invited suggestions from such publishers as Bernard Kilgore of the Wall Street Journal and John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Whitney was politely turned down by several nominees, e.g., Executive Editor Lee Hills of John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, and turned down several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney had never heard of Mexico...
...production, those facts had already brought about a dramatic and significant change in the climate of U.S. labor relations. For the first time in 23 years, the nation's third most powerful union (after the teamsters and the autoworkers) had run-to its shocked surprise -into a stone wall. After years of giving in to union demands for wage raises, the steel industry this year met labor with a hard new line, refused right up to this week to give the union a penny that would raise overall wage costs...
...first companies to utilize the area's resident brainpower is now big, well-known and a darling of Wall Street: Polaroid. Edwin Herbert Land, 50, the founder-president who left Harvard to work on his first polarized light project in 1926 and later invented the Polaroid Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Seven Against the Wall, a dramatization of how Al Capone spent one of his St. Valentine's Days...