Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates, Republicans and Democrats retained three ad agencies and took options on some $4,500,000 worth of fall radio-TV time (three times the 1948 costs). There will be far less whistle-stopping and fewer talks with local bosses, now that TV is out of the bush league of politicking. Items...
...regular order of business began with an 8:30 breakfast with Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall. After Hall, in rapid order, came California's Senator Bill Knowland, Convention Chairman Joe Martin, Platform Committee Chairman Prescott Bush and a string of others, including Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo, who is running for governor of Michigan. Dick Nixon's Republican critic, haggard Harold Stassen, appeared on the sixth floor, conferred for an hour and a half with Presidential Staff Chief Sherman Adams before seeing Ike for ten minutes. The immediate aftermath of Stassen's visit: the first live...
...office in Chibougamau, now handles $500,000 worth of business a week. The town's four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
...famed iron mines and the titanium mines at Havre St. Pierre, Que. As he sees it, the boom has just begun. Arrival of the Canadian National Railways' branch line by year's end seems certain to give the bonanza a new lift. And out in the bush to the north of Chibougamau, a crew of college engineering students hand-picked by Mills are busily prospecting for new strikes. Said Mills last week: "I've waited 22 years for this boom, and it was worth waiting for. I've been paid back handsomely, thank...
...climb back toward the top had been a painful journey, marred by some nightmarish detours into the bush. A dismal five games into third place in mid-July, Manager Walter Alston had to read the riot act to his world champions before they finally got themselves untracked. Duke Snider, the league's leading homerun hitter, began to hit a few (32 at week's end). Cleveland Castoff Sal Maglie started pitching the kind of games he once turned in for the Giants, going the distance in all five of his victories, two of them shutouts. With the team...