Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain (pop. 90,000) southwest of Ceylon...
...certainly was a man with a conscience. "I spank my own children," said he, "and I'm somewhat ashamed the next morning when [the buttocks] turn blue." Cried Board Chairman George Whitman Jr.: "The state of Georgia has a law abolishing corporal punishment in prisons and on chain gangs. Do you think that this law, applying to hardened criminals, should apply to a partially blind twelve-year-old boy?" Answered Nelms: "The board has never ordered me to abolish corporal punishment...
Credit for the discovery goes to Gulf and to a chain-smoking Texan named J. Elmer Thomas, who had been prospecting in Italy since the 1930s. It was Thomas who convinced Gulf that Sicily had oil in commercial quantities. Thomas died in 1949, but Gulf, working through its wholly owned subsidiary, American International Fuel & Petroleum Co., got busy. It hopes to make a deal to pay the government about a 12½% royalty on the oil brought in by its prospectors. Gulf, which has already spent $2,000,000 on drilling and exploration, will spend another $3,000,000 before...
...James T. Leftwich, 64, who has been with the F. W. Woolworth Co. for 40 of the dime-store chain's 75 years, becomes its new president next month. Leftwich joined Woolworth's Chicago office in 1913, became an accountant in 1916 and worked his way up through the comptroller's and treasurer's branches. The company's financial expert, he will take over from...
Surgeon Ogilvie, while partially conceding the bishop's point, offers a remedy equally possible for Buddhists and freethinkers. His solution to the high toll of modern stress: leisure. Said he: "If we cannot relieve stress, we must break it somewhere in the chain . . . Only leisure can rehabilitate the overstressed mechanism of the mind . . ." But mere idleness is not the answer. The kind of leisure men need in a machine-age civilization is rather some spare-time task or occupation "that makes some call on their intelligence and restores their self-respect, transforming them once more from cogs...