Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some knowing assessment of Hoffa comes from his longtime foe, August ("Gus") Scholle, president of the Michigan C.I.O. Council. "Hoffa," says Scholle, "figures he can always buy what he wants." Adds a West Coast lawyer: "Jimmy Hoffa believes that anything can be accomplished and will seize a way to do it. You could count Dave Beck as being tough, but he's an angel alongside of Hoffa. Hoffa is just plain ruthless. Beck rants and snorts. As a last resort, he would use group physical violence, but he wouldn't have anyone bumped off. Hoffa wouldn...
...London) evangelistic campaign he had ever preached. By the numbers, at least, it was also the most fruitful: 56,426 made "decisions for Christ" at Madison Square Garden (38,447 in London's Harringay Arena), and 30,523 made decisions as a result of Billy's coast-to-coast TV program. Of those making decisions at the Garden, 57% were from New York City, 36% from suburbs and exurbs-Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island...
...Though 26 million people in the U.S. may come down with Asian flu, and the disease can sweep coast to coast in a month's time, those who get it without immunization shots, Dr. Burney reemphasized, will have "a relatively mild illness with symptoms which are commonplace accompaniments of many everyday illnesses in our society." In short, Asian flu, though it beds most patients for four days, is not a deadly disease...
Nearly six months ago, when U.S.-educated (Pennsylvania's Lincoln University) Kwame Nkrumah joyously proclaimed "Ghana is free," 50,000 of his Gold Coast countrymen cheered him to the skies. Last week, pulling up to Accra's National Assembly building in a new Rolls-Royce, flanked by jeep outriders, golden-tongued Premier Nkrumah jovially waved a handkerchief to the surrounding crowd and waited for the customary applause. What he got instead was a thunderous hooting-the beginning of two days of rioting in Accra, which brought 100 arrests...
...left. St. Louis' Famous-Barr Co. has been matching discount prices since 1954, when it offered to equal any price reported by a customer, and has the capital to buy carloads of appliances at lower prices than most small discounters can command. Many other big stores from coast to coast hold "warehouse sales" to take advantage of the discounters' low-overhead, high-volume merchandising idea...