Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Office Building. ¶ More than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from the Lower House to the Continuing Body, rubbed in a delicate point...
...Where now rests (on exhibition at $2 a look) the metal coffin of Spelunker Floyd Collins, whose body was transferred from nearby Sand Cave, where he was trapped in 1925 and finally died during an 18-day rescue attempt that attracted international attention...
Layers of Fat. Ralph Cordiner has always made good use of his time. He was born in 1900 on his father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away...
Some Hays-Coffin observations and recommendations...
...Hays and Coffin summed up: "Each problem exists in the context of an intense Canadian desire for recognition of its separate national identity. An apparent attitude of bland indifference by the U.S. has been a source of greater irritation than the economic policies themselves...