Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Semi-hysterical outcries did not help. In Miami Beach, Fla., the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council called upon labor leaders to gather in Washington in mid-March for a "National Emergency Conference" on the economy. In Connecticut, with 8.3% of the state's labor force out of work, Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff summoned the general assembly into special session. And in Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats, convinced that recession will be their party's most profitable issue in the November congressional elections, were doing the nation's confidence no good by trumpeting statistics of sag and calling for crash...
...undergraduate's Chino criticism might suggest, however, that Patchen shows us why much of the poetry written by the "Beat" boys of North Beach isn't so very successful. It's very hard to say America stinks more than once; maybe, if you're good at stringing words together, you can say it twice. But if you want to fill a volume of poetry you have to start thinking about why America stinks. The humor of Patchen indicates a great deal of talent; one could wish he'd forget his sophomoric, tragically bombastic approach to America and look around...
Last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 19-union Building and Construction Trades Department took what seemed a momentous step toward eliminating such cost-boosting practices. Announced at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Miami Beach was an anti-featherbedding code quietly drawn up over the past three years by the building-trades union and spokesmen for the National Constructors Association, whose members account for 90% of the U.S.'s heavy construction. The man behind the code: old (70) Bricklayer Richard James Gray, the B.C.T.D.'s unorthodox president, who shocked his fellow labor leaders at the A.F.L...
Died. Robert Ralph Young, 60, railroad tycoon; by his own hand (gunshot); in Palm Beach, Fla. (see BUSINESS...
Died. Philip Danforth Armour, 64, onetime first vice president (and grandson of the founder) of Chicago's meat-packing Armour & Co., who resigned (in 1931) in a huff after he failed to become its president; of a heart attack; in his Palm Beach, Fla. home...