Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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That gave Sonderegger an idea: Why not set up a newspaper syndicate and clearing house to report crime on a national scale? In Chicago last month, at the Journal-Bulletin's invitation, staffers from the New York Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Chicago Daily News, the Denver Post and other major newspapers met in secret to set up the syndicate...
...gleaming new cars rolled across the stage, the dealers perked up. The sleek, stylish new Kaiser set Texas dealers whooping, rodeo-fashion. Powered with a new 115-h.p., six-cylinder K-F-made engine, the new Kaiser also had optional Hydra-Matic shift (purchased from General Motors). Other selling points: a bigger window area, padded instrument panel to protect front-seat riders in accidents...
After 16 years of profit-sharing, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.'s 1,766 workers were used to bonuses. But last week, in the main plant at Fort Madison, Iowa, a notice went up that set men & women dancing among the machines. For the latest quarter, their bonus would total 50% of their pay-by far the biggest in Sheaffer's history, and more than double the previous quarter...
...trouble was that Merrill Lynch* was set up to do a big chain-store brokerage business, and that, for half the year, the stock market had been only as busy as a corner grocery. What was wrong, said Directing Partner Charles Edward Merrill, was that "Americans spent more than $9 billion last year for new automobiles, and yet were willing to invest only $580 million of new money for industry by the purchase of common stocks . . . People . . . did not invest because they did not know enough about [stocks], or because they thought the risk was too great...
...first 15 minutes, the zone defense worked fairly well, and the score was tied at 35-all. Then Penn's set shooter, Bob Brooks, hit from the outside with seven baskets, and the Quakers went ahead to a seven-point halftime lead...