Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAROLD A. GOLTZ Bellingham, Wash...
...investigation (see cut). But when a newsman asked to see some of the evidence that Bender claimed to have in his files, Bender could produce nothing more convincing than a letter he had sent to Charles C. Curran, secretary-treasurer of a bakery drivers' (Teamsters) local in Tacoma, Wash. "We would like to know," said Bender's letter, "if there have been any cases of racketeering or gangster alliances in your local, and what action has been taken officially to eliminate such elements...
Island Lantern, monthly magazine of the U.S. penitentiary at McNeil Island, Wash., was once a week late because of heavy fog: staffers were denied access to a remote warehouse where cover stock was cut. On the Observer, biweekly paper at the California State Prison at Folsom, reporters must be checked through as many as four inside gates in chase of a story. San Quentin's News has not etched its own engravings in years-not since some handsome counterfeit currency was traced to the prison print shop...
...Growth. For the philosophy behind the acquisitions, Chandler always refers to his "growth map." Says he: "In the next ten years, domestic help will be almost nonexistent, and housewives wash an average of 150 dishes a day. Families are getting bigger, and more wives are working. The growth in convenience foods is going to be terrific. We're just at the beginning of the era." Chandler estimates that packaging in the food industry today is a $6 billion market; by 1965 he expects it to be $9.5 billion...
With the frazzled stare of a gal who wants to wash that fiber right out of her hair, svelte Capital Hostess Gwen Cafritz unwoolled herself after posing implausibly as Santa at a benefit. Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before...