Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timetable technician he at first had no idea that the ultimate destinations of the trains were death camps. He drew angry snorts of laughter when he testified that he could not understand why he was asked to supply barbed wire, "which was in short supply," for every carload of deported Jews. But on one point, the enlargement of his department's responsibility to include confiscation of Jewish property and cancellation of Jewish citizenship, Eichmann was more knowledgeable. It was the result "of the initiative of the division in the Interior Ministry under Hering and Globke." The pointed mention...
...common nights around Cambridge these days is a carload of Harvard city planners driving to testify as private citizens against some project that threatens the historic Square. By now they have almost developed their own stage routine...
...minute. Bright chimponauts soon learn this limitation. They work the levers only enough to collect one pellet. Then they goof off for 45 seconds until the machine is ready to start another cycle. "Two years ago," says Psychologist Rohles, "I wouldn't have given a nickel for a carload of chimps, but I can't praise them too highly now." Some of the Air Force psychologists even claim they are afraid to teach the chimps to play poker, for fear they would win all the loose cash on the base...
Then, the night before the election, there was the "Austin-to-Boston" speech: ten minutes that must have puzzled a lot of people, especially Northerners, who saw Johnson throwing away Southern votes by the carload. "In the first week of the campaign," he began, "the grandson of two Confederates went to Boston. One week later, the grandson of two Irish immigrants came to Austin. The walls are coming down...
...Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist: "It's the bestselling thing since the Hula Hoop!" Campaigner Jack Kennedy was right, sighed an overweight Republican, when he said that 17 million...