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Word: crackly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musing about the fact that traces of oil have been found downtown when water wells were drilled, some Texans crack about tearing down Houston (and rebuilding it a few miles away) to get at the oil. Since the downtown real estate is worth more than the oil potential, even Houston is not likely to go that far. But the oil is worth a lot to the city of Houston. The city holds a one-fourth interest in "City Dump No. 1," should reap $40,000 yearly from it. Trice already has begun drilling "City Dump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Gold Under the Garbage | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Said the witness: "I was sitting there on the ledge watching them. They laid their legs across two stones. Three men came down the line with hammers breaking their legs. They were using 2O-lb. hammers. I could hear the bones crack. They'd holler some, and turn aside, but they didn't holler too loud. The guard, he was a pretty good piece off, and he couldn't hear them. They asked me to join them, but I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Men in Despair | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...campaign, would make a sizable showing in elections, and this is apparently what worries Castillo Armas most. Of Cordova, one government deputy said last week: "He's far worse than a Communist. He's presidential timber." Since June the government's policy has been to crack down on all dissent. Said Mario Sandoval, secretary-general of the government party, in a speech seconded by Castillo Armas: "Ours is the party of force, of combat and of organized violence-if our enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Slipping Fast | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Flowing Vodka. Actually, the biggest crack in the Kremlin's poker face is the regular appearance of the Soviet bosses at parties where vodka flows freely, and Khrushchev and Bulganin make a production of slapping correspondents on the back, playfully rumpling their hair. Often as not, when MVD guards try to keep correspondents at a distance, Bulganin or Khrushchev brush the guards aside, booming: "Let the correspondents in. They're our friends." What with cocktails and confusion, B. & K. are sometimes misunderstood and misquoted. For this reason resident correspondents repeatedly urge Khrushchev to hold press conferences instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thaw in Moscow | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Last week "Tex" Colbert announced a top-management reshuffle to beef up Chrysler's faltering salesmanship. Into the newly created post of administrative vice president went crack Salesman Edgar Charles Row, 60, president of Chrysler Corp. of Canada since 1951, who had boosted Chrysler's share of the Canadian market from 16.2% to 27.8% in the past five years. Ohio-born Ed Row, an old company hand (since 1932), will have wide powers in his new post, be second in command to Colbert, who remains the chief executive officer. To prepare the company further for what he called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: No. 3 Fights Back | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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