Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years. Next day gasoline followed, with a 1? per gallon increase at the pump. As a result of a $40 million wage increase that went into effect Jan. 1 as part of last summer's steel contract, and the Government's refusal to approve fast tax write-offs for expansion, the steel industry posted price increases ranging from 1% on hot rolled strip to 5% on plate. In the textile industry, synthetic yarns went up as much as 25? per lb. for nylon, 11? for dacron, bringing immediate wholesale price increases...
...police force in the Middle East against the hazards of war? Though M. & M. had never heard of such insurance being written before by a private company, it lost no time protecting the international force. Within 24 hours it had arranged for Continental Casualty Co. to write a $25,000 accidental-death-and-dismemberment insurance policy for each U.N. soldier, plus $1,900,000 worth of war-risk insurance on each of three Swiss airline transports...
...lighthearted excursion into the Gillette Co. (where he invented a one-piece razor and the "Blue Blade" and paid off $20 million of the company's debts), Lambert has kept busy away from industry. He has learned to paint, to play politics (for Republican candidates), to write thrillers (Murder in Newport). As owner-skipper of the famed yachts Yankee, Vanitie and Atlantic, he has lost the last of his loneliness and shyness amid Morgans and Vanderbilts...
...accusation of Communism do have a certain natural desire to keep their jobs. They have seen some of their colleagues sent to Mozambique or out of the Foreign Service simply for criticizing American foreign policy, particularly a brand new, bold, forthright, massive policy. Apparently it is perfectly acceptable to write what you think if you are stationed in Australia, but not if you are in Formosa, Beirut, or Belgrade...
JULY. Confidential will write an expose of the Harvard Summer School. The article will brand Professor Pitirim Sorokin "The intellectual's answer to Polly Adler." Professor Fieser will declare that he can create complex organic forms. President Pusey will challenge him to make a tree...