Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master plan by signing a "conference" pact for the purpose of "discussing and settling jurisdictional disputes, matters of mutual concern and matters affecting progress and stability in the transportation industry." Among those who will be invited to attend the August meeting: Red-Lining Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast's International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Paul Hall, president of Joe Curran's rival outfit, the Seafarers' Union, New York subway union's Mike Quill...
...Science Czar." Dr. Killian got the headlines, if not the specific job. He added to his influence at once with a shot of his old M.I.T. organizational energy. He expanded membership of the President's Science Advisory Committee from twelve to 17, recruited scores of scientists coast to coast to set up 20 or so panels to study space programs, scientific education, missiles, translations of Russian documents, anything relevant to science. Before long he had generally set off a ferment of excited scientific mind-rubbing...
...accordingly no need for a big U.N. police force to seal off Lebanon's frontiers, although the U.N. observers admitted that they had free access to only eleven of Lebanon's 172 miles of border with Syria. The U.S. Sixth Fleet stopped steaming off Lebanon's coast and sailed west to land its marines and sailors for July 4th weekend liberty in Athens and Nice. Handsome, white-haired President Camille Chamoun bluntly asked the U.S., British and French ambassadors if their governments had changed their policies...
...gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain reports that it sold only nine cans of sauerkraut a week at a dime apiece, but 441 cans priced at ten cans for $1. A West Coast petfood packer sells more three-can packages priced at 29? than three individual cans priced at 9? apiece...
...success of the campaigns is amply demonstrated by the fact that grocery sales are still soaring. Last week the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. reported record sales and profits for the seventh year in a row. As one West Coast adman says, "Mrs. America doesn't just buy what she needs; she buys what she wants...