Word: coughings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing maroon pajamas and a navy-blue silk robe, the President was bustled out of the White House shortly before 2:30 one morning, 14 hours after he took the oath, helped into a Navy ambulance and whisked off to Bethesda Naval Hospital. He was suffering from a heavy cough and chest pains. Since he had suffered a nearfatal heart attack ten years ago, he was worried. But by midmorning, the President's doctor announced that nothing serious ailed him-little more than a case of too much inauguration...
...When the President was plagued by hoarseness during the campaign, did he pop cough drops into his mouth, even as ordinary citizens...
...From cough drops to corn plasters, all prescriptions written under the National Health Service will forthwith be free: a 280 prescription charge on each item was abolished...
...mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington Star was amused by the Johnsonian declaration that "for the first time in history, profits are higher than ever before": "With the above offering, the Chief has taken his place alongside those forgotten orators who reminded...
Vending as an industry was saved by widespread shakeouts, new directions and new types of machines. Many small operators dropped out, unable to compete for locations or cough up $2,000 for a single, modern coffee dispenser. In the last five years, 400 mergers have taken place. Meanwhile new mechanical marvels have lured more nickels and dimes. Coffee, the most profitable product (2.8 billion cups last year), percolated higher sales and earnings with the introduction of single-cup, variable-strength mixers. Soft drinks in cups, an impulse purchase, boomed with the introduction of cracked ice to the machines. Cigarettes...