Word: boomerang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hour day group-thinking with the network committees populated by his 39 vice presidents. Few below NBC's top level know Kintner; unlike his chic, gregarious wife Jean, 42, he is not fascinated by his on-camera employees, rarely attends company parties for talent. He keeps a neat, boomerang-shaped desk in an office adorned by a mottled abstract, a wifely gift that he describes as "either an oil geyser or a quiz show going up in smoke." At night Kintner disposes of dinner with a sandwich and watches TV; he tries to catch every NBC show at least...
Following Paddock's lead in gunite construction are the Anthony Bros., Inc. of South Gate, Calif. (1958 sales: $8,000,000 ). The four brothers this year will market 50 models, including starfish-and boomerang-shaped pools, priced from $2,800, expect sales to top $10 million. For the nation's largest pool-equipment maker, Swimquip, Inc. of El Monte, Calif., the torrent of 1959 business has come so fast that all materials allocated for the first half were used up in the first quarter. Said President William O. Baker: "This year the business has gone crazy...
...Boomerang. Two days later Labor moved a vote of censure against the government's failure to "prevent the recent substantial and widespread rise in unemployment." With 600,000 jobless in Britain, this seemed a good issue. But Tory Labor Minister Iain Macleod was able to announce a drop in unemployment of 58,-ooo-the biggest decrease in any one month in twelve years. Said he: "The first seven years in opposition are always the most difficult. I cannot help it if every time the Opposition are asked to name their weapons, they pick boomerangs...
...nation's newest airport hotel, a six-story, 320-room building that looks like a boomerang on stilts, will open May 8 at New York International (Idlewild) Airport, gateway for U.S. overseas air traffic. Designed by William B. Tabler in blue and white glazed brick, the hotel was built by the New York Port Authority, will be operated by Knott Hotel Corp. It will include a main dining room able to seat 160 people, a coffee shop with seats for 100, a cocktail lounge, and telephone booths with comfortable upholstered chairs instead of the standard hard, wooden seats...
...doubt, said he, the Communist rulers gained a success in Sputnik. "But Sputnik, mocking the American people with its beep-beep, may go down in history as Mr. Khrushchev's boomerang. A wave of mortification, anger and fresh determination swept the country. Out of that mood is coming a more serious appraisal of the struggle...