Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...guarded seclusion of Rome's Villa Margherita Clinic, eager-beaver U.S. and Italian photographers fell all over each other in the rush for an exclusive picture of mother & child. Enthusiastic bidders priced their interest at 5,000,000 lire ($8,000), and newsmen tried every imaginable method of invading the clinic, from offering bribes to the nuns on duty to scaling walls and pretending that their own wives were in the maternity division. But nobody got the picture...
...Nardis, a near-bankrupt dress firm which he wanted Benny to pull out of the red. To the horror of other Dallas garmentmakers, who are still only 20% unionized, Benny called on the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for help. I.L.G.W.U. engineers taught him an assembly-line method of making dresses. Benny not only signed a union contract but became the first Dallas manufacturer to employ Negroes. Benny's experiment was a success: from a one-shop company with 15 machines, he expanded Nardis into five plants employing 1,100. He specialized in the use of corduroy...
...East, says Dr. Rogers, this method, haphazard at best, does not work: there are no ground squirrels. Eastern mycophagists (fungus eaters) have to go back to first principles and use trained animals. Either dogs or hogs will do, but dogs are nicer to have around the house...
...have Bevin's job as Foreign Secretary during those years disagreed. From the dispatch box opposite Bevin, Anthony Eden attacked the "timing and method" which had put Britain out of step with the U.S., France and most of the Commonwealth. Said Eden sharply: "Recognition has in fact brought out no advantage at all ... Our commercial interests in China are of immense importance [but] it will advantage no one-not those firms, nor anyone else-to embark on a policy of appeasement . . ." British recognition, he added, had adversely affected "events outside China, notably in Indo-China and in Malaya...
...rarity these days. Baseball games are often dragged out to dreary, argumentative, three-hour marathons and slow-moving, histrionic pitchers are primarily responsible for the delays. Last week, in an attempt to get back to the oldfashioned, snappy, two-hour game,* Cleveland General Manager Hank Greenberg tried a newfangled method...