Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grms. of heroin, tried in federal court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Vito Genovese, who possibly oversaw the distribution of 17½ Ibs. of heroin, who was only commercially interested, when tried in April received 15 years. (Harsher penalties only get the applause of the "big city boys" who distribute narcotics, because the stiffer the penalty the higher the price...
...Big (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.), easy-moving Neil McElroy, 54, got off to a dazzling start as Defense Secretary. Taking over from "Engine Charlie" Wilson in October 1957, five days after the first Soviet Sputnik soared into orbit, he gave the Army a prompt go-ahead to shoot its Jupiter-C into space while the Navy was still fumbling with its Vanguard. He ended the economy ban on overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy...
...Trouble. As production has increased, consumption has dropped from 383 eggs per capita a year in 1949 to 359 due to dieters skipping heavy breakfasts and some fear of cholesterol in egg yolks. To bring production more in line with consumption, many a big producer thinks that the Government should stay out of the market, let competition eliminate marginal producers. Says N.A. McNally, who operates a 100,000-chicken farm near Los Angeles: "If the Government had just let things alone, some marginal producers would have been dropping out of the picture by now. I mean...
...expansion-minded chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, long had his "loving eye" on the New York Trust Co. He knew that a minority of New York Trust shareholders wanted to sell out if they could get a good price. New York Trust's big wholesale banking business (specializing in large industrial accounts) and its seven offices would nicely complement his own 94-office bank doing a largely retail banking business with smaller clients. Last week Helm proposed a merger, swapping 1¾ shares of Chemical Corn stock for one share of New York Trust. Directors...
...street patch of roach-rich jungle ruled by his gang-the Royal Crocadiles, of whom Lu Ann is a one-girl ladies' auxiliary. The few streets beyond are prowled by a rival pack known as the Wolves; the rest of the planet is terra incognita. Duke is a big man in his neighborhood, where people are divided into two classes-the coolies, who are pushed around, and the cool, who do the pushing...