Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patience at an end, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. marched into a Topeka, Kans. courtroom last week and got a temporary injunction to stop an old trick that was costing it money. The trick is the uncompleted long-distance call, by which subscribers get their message across via a prearranged code and hang up without paying a dime. Like Illinois Bell Telephone Co., which estimated its losses at $400,000 annually (TIME, April 16), Southwestern Bell was losing heavily...
...hold on tenaciously to all the operating benefits that go with small-size companies, with Dresser Industries acting as a management group doing all those things where bigness is important." Proving the idea in the last seven years, Dresser found and bought four more companies-Magcobar, Lane-Wells Co., Southwestern Industrial Electronics and Guiberson Corp.-and helped them grow bigger in their fields. As a result of its successful diversification and growth, Dresser estimates earnings will be $7.90 a share in the fiscal year ending Oct. 31 v. $5.04 in the previous year. With such a sprawling operation, ubiquitous President...
...further harry the Crimson defenders, Dartmouth has come up with a restrained version of Southwestern razzle-dazzle football. Quarterback Brown has gained a reputation for unorthodox, and surprisingly successful signal calling. Besides elaborate faking on punts and kickoffs, the Indians often use lateral passes at the end of forward passes...
Nerve center for the Summer School's whole extra-curricular program is Grays Hall 1-2, near the southwestern corner of the Yard. From these rooms some 700 messages each day are carried by foot to dormitory rooms throughout the Yard; in these rooms, attractively outfitted with modern furniture, including television sets, students may receive guests from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week; and at desks in these rooms sit Mrs. Clouser and Miss Jaeger, who have all sorts of information about such things as nearby beaches, weekend carpools, and laundry service (basement, middle entry of Grays...
Shinicky, 62, campaigned vigorously. One day last week, after charging that national police were intimidating people into voting for Rhee, he boarded a train in Seoul to begin a stumping tour of southwestern Korea. As the train sped south, Shinicky slumped over quietly, died later of a cerebral hemorrhage. Word of his death was flashed back to Seoul, and his body was put aboard a special government train for return to the capital...