Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving his 7,500 employees a yearly wage-and-fringe-benefit boost worth 11.25? an hour, only a quarter of a cent more than the last industry-wide offer. To the Kaiser company, the terms made special sense because of its special situation, which includes a $14-a-ton West Coast premium on certain steel shapes, a newer work force costing less for pension improvements...
...with the missions of personal diplomacy that he felt might lead toward a hardheaded world peace. A polite Eisenhower nudge brought an agreement from France's President Charles de Gaulle to a pre-summit meeting of Western chiefs of state (Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Britain's Macmillan, West Germany's Adenauer) on Dec. 19 in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that lay a summit conference with Khrushchev next spring. Between the Western meeting and the long-heralded summit, Ike planned to make his promised visit to Moscow...
Evie, too, was doing pretty well at moneymaking. Gifted with a rich contralto, she frequently sang, without thought of fee, at society charity events. Singing at a heart-clinic benefit at the Place Pigalle nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street in 1934, she so impressed the manager that he offered her a paying job. So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week. Symington, a lot less famous in those years than his wife, followed her nightclub trail...
Murphy, a career diplomat extraordinary, was retiring because 1) he had just reached retirement age of 65; 2) after serving more than 30 of his 42 years of service abroad, he had no great interest in accepting a presidential offer as Ambassador to West Germany; and 3) he had an attractive offer to work in private industry. In accepting the resignation "with deep regret," the President wrote: "I am aware of the vast contribution you have made on behalf of all of us in your efforts to advance a just and secure peace...
Other epic contests have followed. One of the most famous was the 1929 Army contest, in which the Crimson tied a West Point eleven led by all-time great Chris Cagle, 20 to 20. Putnam and Barry Wood, then a substitute, completed seven of 12 passes for 168 yards, including a list-ditch aerial to end V.M. Harding for the tying touchdown...