Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor-saving farm machinery are expected to displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have to scrape the bottom of the labor barrel in the North find they can pick, choose and train the brightest of young Southerners...
...delegates about the biggest project ever undertaken by an American coop. To help ease the fertilizer shortage, C.C.A. will build a $16 million nitrogen plant at Lawrence, Kans. with $6,000,000 borrowed from C.C.A. members and the rest from the RFC. C.C.A. will also build a 5,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker for its refinery at Phillipsburg, Kans., open $1,000,000 worth of lumber kilns at its mill in Swisshome...
...Prompting two former chairmen of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, to put up a "friendly forfeit": a coonskin cap v. a barrel of oysters...
Under People in TIME of Sept. 24, you speak of the delicate mauve orchid christened Marshal Stalin, now renamed General George Patton. So that the realm of botany be graced with Stalin's name, why not rechristen the barrel cactus (I hope you never sit on one) Marshal Stalin...
...from 47% to 52% on the remainder. ¶ The excess-profits tax is boosted by lowering the "normal" earnings (exempt from the tax) to 83% of the 1946-49 base period instead of the current 85%. ¶ Whiskey taxes are raised 24? to 30? per fifth, beer $1 per barrel, cigarettes 1? per package, gasoline ½? per gallon, autos $50 for a light sedan. A new 10% excise tax is placed on power lawnmowers, home movie projectors, electric dishwashers...