Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dixie at every crossroads; so did Pepper's. The Senator cried that his opponent was a tool of the rich in general and of the Du Pont interests in particular. And to win favor with Florida's numerous old folks, Pepper backed the Townsend Plan, lock, stock & barrel...
Back in 1812, all the dock workers around Troy, N.Y. knew "Uncle Sam" Wilson. A tall, talkative meat packer with a friendly word for everybody, Uncle Sam was often on hand to see his Government-consigned barrels of pork and beef loaded on boats and sent down the Hudson for the war against the British. When one passenger asked an Irish watchman at the dock what the "U.S." stamped on each barrel meant, the watchman had a ready answer: "It must mean Uncle Sam ... he's feeding the army...
Through the centuries, the hog has obligingly accommodated himself to man's changing tastes and needs. Refrigeration put an end to the small-boned, fat-heavy hogs; consumers wanted leaner meat. But hog farmers, working to breed their animal out of the barrel and into the icebox, soon found themselves in another fix: the big-boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally...
Died. Irving Addison Bacheller, 90, whose optimistic fresh-air tales of upstate New York's "North Country" (Eben Hoiden, Barrel of the Blessed Isles, Silas Strong) were pre-Jazz Age favorites; in White Plains, N.Y. At 40, Bacheller left his job as Sunday editor of Pulitzer's New York World to finish his third novel (his first two were flops), Eben Holden, which sold a million copies and brought him sudden fame...
...personality on the air. From radio and TV, records, business investments, stocks & bonds, and other odds & ends, he gets close to $1,000,000 a year. He earns $1,500 for every minute he broadcasts. He is seen & heard-and apparently loved-by 40 million people. His homey, cracker-barrel commercials for tea, cigarettes, furniture polish, floor wax, window cleanser, crackers, shampoos, soup, home permanents, hand lotion and hair tonic set cash registers jingling profitably across the nation. He is the greatest salesman who ever stood before a microphone...