Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amateur Standing. In Chattanooga, Moonshiner William Garden was placed on two years' probation after he dolefully told the court that he burned his first batch, spilled kerosene in his second, did so badly the third time that he asked arresting revenuers: "How in the world is mash supposed to look when it's ready...
Escorted to the ship by the dynamic Secretary himself, a batch of 75 Communist guerrillas, who had surrendered or been captured in the hills of Luzon, set sail with their families for sparsely populated Mindanao, where they would farm their own land. At first, the Huks who had volunteered for Magsaysay's resettlement program were doubtful. Some half suspected they were walking into a trap. Six days later their doubts vanished when government trucks carried them into a vast resettlement farm at Kapatagan, and they found rows of neat, new houses and 16,000 acres of fertile land waiting...
Last week, as the second batch of 100 Huk settlers reached Mindanao, the camp had electric lights. It also had plenty of pots & pans, plates, spoons, forks, bedding, cigarettes, mosquito nets, a radio-phonograph with the latest U.S. records, a new commander...
...down on the list, among the batch of possibilities which Gallup called "Others," was presumably Douglas MacArthur, who said he wasn't interested. The pros seemed to consider him more valuable as an issue than as a candidate. But he worried the Eisenhower backers on another score. They hoped that MacArthur would not take it into his head to come out against the candidacy of his onetime aide...
...executive order, he turned over a batch of 20 functions to the Secretary of the Interior. Among them was the duty of taxing people in the Virgin Islands who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, prescribe or administer marijuana for medical purposes. He also gave up the duty of removing and appointing the principal chieftains of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indian tribes, and of approving resolutions of their tribal councils...