Word: corks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notably unhappy period as commissioner of major league baseball (1945-51). Opposing Chandler in the May 28 Democratic primary is Lawyer Edward T. Breathitt Jr., 38, who has the backing of Incumbent Governor Bert Combs. Old Happy is pretty much ignoring Breathitt (pronounced breath-it) and is popping his cork at Combs...
Murphy emphasized that the program would not involve "hiring" corpsmen to do volunteer cork. Rather, they would be "catalytic agents," coordinators who in a 2-to-5 year period, would establish volunteer programs with the resources of a particular community. These resources would include local colleges and universities, high schools, fraternal organizations, church groups, and "golden-age" groups...
...Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price to $25 per square yard in one year, one of several convicted German swindlers...
Collectively, they were nicknamed "happy hot dogs," and their numbers included Dean Acheson, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, James...
...even good news could arrest the drop. Oxford Paper and Sundstrand Corp. (machine tools) proudly posted dividend increases-and the stock of both companies continued to fall. Crown Cork & Seal trumpeted a 25% rise in secondquarter profits; next day, its stock plunged 3 points...