Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind scenes, Mitchell has been trying to get President Eisenhower and the Cabinet to tide the unemployed over until there is a step-up in hiring. He works against a firm deadline: April 1, when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under...
...Capone mobster named Rocco Pranno decided to cut himself in on the jukebox operations of young Ralph Kelly. To persuade Kelly of the wisdom of hiring him as "business adviser," Pranno drove him through the countryside with cement weights tied to Kelly's legs, threatening to drop him over a bridge. Committee investigators reported that Kelly's annual jukebox profit before Pranno was $16,000; afterward it dropped...
...They seemed to know each other's moves from the start," says Pilous of his veterans. "It's a form of mental telepathy. They can crisscross and drop a puck, and they can crisscross and not drop it, and they won't get fouled up." Lindsay's aggressive play (he is the most penalized player in the league) and Sloan's playmaking brought Litzenberger to life. At week's end he was within four points of leading the league in individual scoring. Pilous figures his Pappy Line is still young enough to stay together...
...optional fourth semester might continue into more advanced physics, explore as much as possible of quantum theory and relativity, and discuss "philosophic implications" more thoroughly. On the other hand, if a student proved extremely allergic to science after two semesters in the program, perhaps some outlet by petitioning to drop the third semester could be provided...
...primary realization has been that the program should not be compulsory. It was the compulsory nature of the old non-honors plan as much as anything else that destroyed it, prompting every department but one to drop it as soon as the Faculty permitted...