Word: beane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seized the printing facilities of a Cuban publisher who printed two "Yankee imperialist" magazines: the Latin American editions of TIME and the Reader's Digest. Aware that such a move was imminent, TIME production managers had already made emergency printing arrangements with the Atlanta firm of W. R. Bean & Son (which was used to such emergencies: it printed TIME'S Latin American edition 24 times in 1958 when Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista shut down the Havana plant in displeasure at TIME coverage of his regime...
...bean gun (World War II)-mobile kitchen...
Director Billy Wilder, fresh off the boat from Europe and without a bean in his pocket, picked up his first salary check in Hollywood by hiring out as a stunt man and jumping into a swimming pool in full fig. Since that day, he has splashed about so energetically in the cinema swim that now he is established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four...
...known locally as the "Hal Hayes type." One subcontractor, V. E. Lowry, said that Hayes had first avoided paying him for renting several pieces of earth-moving equipment, then offered him 50? on the dollar-and withdrew the offer after Lowry accepted. Last September, County Judge Woodrow Bean wrote to President Eisenhower, Senator Lyndon Johnson and others charging that "the conduct of the contractor has established a pattern which indicates a deliberate plan not to pay for equipment rented." 34-Minute House. Hayes has been an unusual operator in the construction industry from the start. When his builder father fell...
...That Crazy Lima. In San Diego, Eighth-Grader Diana Walter experimented with lima bean plants for a science class, exposed one to water and sun, another to water and popular music, found that the second plant grew faster...