Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a Milwaukee taxicab company once gave each of the city's 27 aldermen an electric blanket for Christmas, most of them gratefully accepted the gift even though the aldermen control taxicab rates. They soon wished they hadn't. Reason: the Milwaukee Journal caught wind of the story, promptly played it on Page One. For Milwaukee, the Journal thought it added up to a major political scandal...
...ceiling from prices it will pay domestic producers of some strategic materials. Previously, it would pay U.S. suppliers no more than 25% higher prices than those paid to foreign producers. The board will take off price restrictions on a few badly needed materials, will try to avoid a blanket increase. With the new high prices, the board hopes to persuade U.S. miners to develop low-grade deposits of such metals as manganese, copper and zinc, thus speed up its lagging stockpiling program...
...crowd got the thrills it came for. Tearing along at 50 m.p.h., one car lost a rear wheel, dragged 100 yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with a fractured skull...
...this silence? wonders Dr. Louis N. Ridenour, dean of the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, in the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Are radiological poisons ineffective? Or are they so deadly that atom-minded governments have smothered all mention of them under blanket security...
...raised on the stretcher to take a piece of food or chocolate somebody offered him. He was wearing a T-shirt, they reported, and was not wounded above the waist, as far as they could tell, but he was covered from the waist down by a blanket...