Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skunk Juice. A significant share of the credit for the Teamsters' growth went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice...
...Beck was named president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Frank Brewster took his place at the head of the Western Conference. His duties kept him traveling, and so did his horses; he therefore sold his Seattle home and began living in hotel rooms. Under Brewster, the West Coast Teamsters have given heavily to charity, sponsored a classical-music program on television, with Seattle Symphony Conductor Milton Katims presiding...
...problem is transporting so much oil across some 500 miles of desert to the sea, too big a job for two narrow pipelines and the railway. To get the oil out, Lemaire will lay down an null 530-mile pipeline from the wells directly to the Algerian or Tunisian coast...
...leasing at about $2,000,000 more than the planes cost originally left Trans American only three DC-45 now used in West Coast shuttle service and on military contracts, plus one old stand-by DC-3. By leasing before the Supreme Court rules, the owners got more than if they waited and then had to make a forced sale. If the court refuses to send the case back to CAB for a new hearing, Trans American will have only 45 days to close up in 21 cities and lay off 750 employees...
...hospital routine in the face of a dead certainty. The operation only confirmed the death sentence and, unwilling to live as "less than a whole man," Wertenbaker collected a large supply of narcotics and returned to die with his family in Ciboure on France's lovely Basque coast. Following this account, few readers will fail to be moved by the pathos of a middle-aged couple who can suddenly no longer say, "When...