Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Practically every American is familiar with some of the costs, in time and frustration, of this predicament. Almost everybody has from time to time-or, frequently, every day -submitted to the hopelessly clogged, bumper-to-bumper auto jams that not only afflict the big cities but immobilize the multimillion-dollar freeways that were devised to speed an auto-borne population on its way. He has walked a mile or more through the corridors of a palatial new airport just to get to and from his plane, then found himself so far from a city center that the time spent...
When Rolvaag offered Short the lieutenant governor slot on his "independent" ticket, the bandwagon was rolling. Rolvaag soon had the influential support of Twin Cities labor unions. The "Short for Lieutenant-Governor" and "Rolvaag-Short" campaigns were models of logistic efficiency. Billboards, bumper stcikers, newspaper ads, television and radio spots saturated the state...
...governorship two years later when Republican Incumbent Donald Nutter was killed in an airplane crash. Since barely winning election in his own right in 1964, Babcock has become a cocky, polished political performer. The G.O.P. has plastered the state with "Win with Tim" billboards and issued 30,000 bumper stickers proclaiming WE EAT MONTANA BEEF, NOT L.B.J. BALONEY...
...Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped by a substantial 0.3% in September, now stand 3½% above their level of a year ago. Higher clothing, housing and medical costs accounted for most of the latest rise. Food prices actually dipped a tiny amount, thanks chiefly to a bumper harvest of fruits and vegetables...
...knee, and along with those modest Russian miniskirts took Courrèges to boot. Then the State Committee on Prices hiked the tags on a wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...