Word: burners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the resolution went over to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, whose chairman is an old political gas burner, Texas' Tom Connally. For 28 weeks this Committee had drowsed over a batch of postwar resolutions, including the highly publicized B²H². Connally now called his Committee together, emerged with a statement that it would not report out the Fulbright Resolution either...
...California hospital, where he was recovering from rabbit fever) is his office assistant. The moving spirit of "No Work, No Woo" is a 23-year-old brunette ex-Hollywood model, Jeannine Christiansen, a daughter by his first marriage. She is a $1.32-an-hour plate burner on the graveyard shift, and by turning down a date from a shiftless worker gave her father his catchiest anti-absenteeism campaign...
...crippled and disabled. More and more of them are finding a place. In the Kaiser shipyards, for example, a paralyzed arm is no hindrance to I. L. Matthews, who walks under a crane to warn other workers to get out of the way. Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either. Of some 5,000,000 U.S. cripples, it is estimated that 75% are employable-and of some 600,000 epileptics...
Associates know him as a calm man, a steady, levelheaded "slow burner." He speaks without wasting words, often with a dry, schoolteacher's sarcasm...