Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Axis alliance, awoke in the White House with the phrase on his lips. Rising, F.D.R. wheeled his chair to the guest suite, where the sound of running water drew him to the bathroom door. He pushed the door open and called out to the august figure sitting in the bathtub: "How about United Nations?" There was a gurgle of satisfaction from Prime Minister Churchill, who had been holding out against any highfalutin notions of world government. The P.M. rinsed the soap from his eyes, shook his head like a wet hippopotamus. Said Churchill: "That should...
...warm lowlands around the busy port of Guayaquil (pop. 262,000). But because picturesque Quito (pop. 212,000), some 9,000 ft. up in the Andes, is the seat of government, it happily shares the fruits of the boom. Once slurred as the city of "100 churches and one bathtub," the capital now boasts new hotels, nightclubs, theaters. Around Quito, however, in the eroded Andean valleys that are overpopulated with 60% illiterate Indians, the economy is still sluggish. The Panama-hat industry, once a mainstay of the mountain Indians, is dying...
Persistent Paternalism. The Kohler Co., founded in 1873 by Austrian Immigrant John M. Kohler, has always been something of a maverick. Family-owned, the bathtub barony answered to no outside board of stockholders, and had its own policy toward the hired help. Walter Kohler Sr., second-generation boss of the firm, housed Kohler workers in a beautiful model town, but would not give his workers the right to bargain collectively. An A.F.L. strike for union recognition in 1934 cost two lives, saw the strikers stone and dent the Kohler plant's front door, brought in the National Guard, ended...
Cash-Register Clausewitz. As they scurry out of Paris before the Nazi Panzers and Stukas in the summer of 1940, Papa and Mama Poissonard and family seem no better off than anyone else Papa is built like a beer barrel and Mama like a bathtub, but they do have a nose for news, and word reaches them within a week that the Germans are most "correct." They race back to the Bon Beurre, to do a little business-as-usual...
...substitute, to rearm and grant sovereignty to West Germany under a different set of agreements, was conceived by Britain's Foreign Minister Anthony Eden one morning in his bathtub. Last October in Paris, with the help of Dulles and of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (the Man of 1953), Eden got his alternative plan approved at the foreign-minister level. Many military men discovered that they liked Eden's Western European Union, with its appeal to nationalism, better than EDC, with its emphasis on European political unity. The Communists testified to the plan's potential: they fought as desperately against...