Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great. In its first year of operation, the canal carried 40,000 westering Americans to the frontier, shuttled the products of the West back to New York harbor. It cut the cost of transporting a barrel of flour from Buffalo to New York from $10 to 30?; for years its tolls paid all state expenses. Is the Thruway a concrete Erie Canal? Not quite-but almost...
...went on to The Rosary, Twelfth Street Rag, the Beer Barrel Polka, some fast, weak boogie-woogie, and his TV theme song, I Don't Care (which he dedicated to his critics). Between numbers he casually dropped the names of God, President Eisenhower, Paderewski and some of his 185 TV sponsors (notably a toilet-paper manufacturer). He also introduced Mom, who was proudly sitting in a spotlighted box, wearing mink and orchids...
There were crises. In the commodity collapse of 1921, the price of oil dropped in nine days from $3.50 a barrel to $1. Murchison and Richardson had all their money tied up in leases nobody wanted. Says Murchison: "We almost lost our taw." They split up, held creditors off as best they could. One even hounded them on a hunting trip; they left him stranded on an island in the Gulf while they fled to the mainland. Ultimately, the price of oil went up; they paid their debts. Says Murchison:"If you are honest and if you are trying, most...
...also: ¶ Nominated his old friend and West Point classmate, Lieut. General Joseph M. Swing, 60, recently retired, to be Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. ¶ Welcomed Nebraska's new Senator, Mrs. Eva Bowring (TIME, April 26) to Washington with a discussion of the relative merits of single-barrel (Ike's choice) and double-barrel shotguns (Mrs. Bow-ring's). The President, said Rancher Bowring, "made a Sandhiller feel right at home. He grows...
...favor the unexpected slogan, the daring phrase, and the clever metaphor. After discarding a welter of potential winners I finally penned this entry, "I want to go to Niagara Falls and see the whole cast of Rose Marie go over the Falls in a Cinemascopic Barrel...