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"We decided." said Lewis, "that it was better to have half a million men working in the industry at good wages and high standards of living than to have a million working in poverty and degradation." Squeeze the Underfed. In line with this businesslike philosophy. John L. has enthusiastically pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mining: Hot Coal | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

No dance band can squeeze in more than one quick waltz or fox trot before the crowd begins chanting "Tvist! Tvist!" The bands quickly oblige. In less than two months, German record companies have spun out 300,000 twist disks, hope to triple their sales in six months. Of 100...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Der Liszt Tvist | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

The newest kick is glue sniffing. A 14-year-old sniffer explains: "You take a tube of plastic glue, the kind squares use to make model airplanes, and you squeeze it all out in a handkerchief, see. Then you roll up the handkerchief into a sort of tube, put the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: The New Kick | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Last week's flow of strong earnings reports would probably not drown out the U.S. businessman's perennial plaint about "the profits squeeze," but it did show that well-managed companies can do very nicely even in a non-boom year. Since 1960, with its second-half sag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Automation's Dividends | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

TWA, following a practice indulged in by most airlines, had "overbooked" the flight, counting on enough cancellations at the last minute to squeeze everybody aboard. But there were fewer no-shows than expected, and Flight 77 was in trouble. Wills finally got to Los Angeles on another airline, 4½...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: He Who Got Bumped | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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