Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cronies guffawed, and Libonati broke into a broad grin at the joke. That was last August, and he well knew that when the Democratic ward bosses of Chicago's seamy, machine-run Seventh Congressional District tabbed him as their man, he was as good as elected...
Cooler friendships between the U.S. and three hemisphere neighbors seemed a sure result as the U.S. Tariff Commission began hearings this week in Washington on tariffs for imported lead and zinc. Heavy administration pressure was on the commission to raise the tariffs; President Eisenhower promised last August that he would request it to "expedite its consideration of the matter." Even before the hearings began, anguished complaints came from Canada, Peru and Mexico...
...byline of the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, which has decorated Pulitzer Prizewinning stories from Korea and weighty dispatches from world capitals, popped up last August in Reader's Digest and other magazines. Under the headline ONE BILLION UNFILLED CAVITIES MUST BE WRONG! ran a pseudo-news story by "Noted Journalist" Higgins, plugging Crest toothpaste. Washington-based Maggie Higgins, 37 (married to Major General William E. Hall), took her $500 fee and thought nothing more of it until she got a letter from the Standing Committee of Congressional Press Gallery Correspondents, questioning whether she had violated...
...summer and early fall, because virus infections, which can damage the fetus, are commonest in winter. But when they checked the birth dates of nearly 6,000 mentally deficient children born in Columbus from 1913 through 1948, they found, on the contrary, least mental deficiency among babies born in August, September and October. It was commonest among those born in the year's first quarter, with the peak among February births...
...year. To pay their higher bills, railroads last week were getting ready to request their 15th freight-rate hike since World War II (total freight-rate increase since then: 107%). The Interstate Commerce Commission will look kindly upon the request. When the rails got their last rate raise in August, the ICC conceded that it was not enough, and invited them to come back for "further moderate increases." But ICC stipulated that this time the rails must ask for rate increases item by item, rather than an overall boost...