Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody fell in with the new line. In Leningrad barrel-chested Marshal Georgy Zhukov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in a bottle-green uniform listing to port under a load of gold and silver orders, castigated the ousted Malenkov. Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov "antiparty group" for resisting progress. Orated Zhukov: "Its members objected in particular to the slogan: 'Catch up in the next few years to the United States in per capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted...
...gave away something like 90% of his estimated $200 million fortune; of cerebral thrombosis; in Houston. Texas-born of poor parents, Cullen left the third grade to work in a candy factory, dabbled in cotton and real estate, then (1930) as a wildcatter, struck deep into the 500-million-barrel Rabb's Ridge oil field, 50 miles from Houston. His method: to take wells others had given up, and drill deeper. After his son and heir was killed in an oil-field accident, Roy Cullen could not give his money away fast enough. He established (1947) the $160 million...
...promise of reversing the present pattern of costly refining in congested market areas. By becoming an independent common carrier, Texas Eastern can ship the lower-cost products of Gulf Coast refineries on a steadier basis than slow, crude-hauling Mississippi River barges, and at as much as 30? a barrel less...
Frantic advocates of deep cuts are, not so strangely, very quiet on one sure way to reduce federal spending by millions of dollars. Federal pork-barrel appropriations for local projects are made under the time-honored system of "you vote for mine and I'll vote for yours." On this subject it appears that the word is "shhh...
...regional conference of Republican leaders in Trenton, N.J., Ike called for legislation giving the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills as "one simple way to save a lot of money"-a thrust at congressional budget-cutters who favor economy on everything except pork-barrel projects for the voters back home...