Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year; land five miles from the center of Youngstown, Ohio, has quadrupled from $500 to $2,000 an acre in eight years. The city of Wichita recently paid $600 for cornfields along the Arkansas River that formerly brought $400 an acre, in order to use them as a city dump; other land near by with industrial possibilities is going for $1,000 an acre. "This has taken on the dimensions of a national land lottery," insists William H. Scofield, the Agriculture Department's top real-estate-research expert. "A few lucky owners will realize handsome returns. Thousands more will...
...vice-presidential hopeful, filed for a fourth four-year term, which if completed would make his the longest gubernatorial tenure in U.S. history (current record: 15 years, set by Maryland's Albert C. Ritchie from 1920 through 1934). Smylie, who led the 1965 fight to dump Goldwaterite Dean Burch as G.O.P. national chairman, will campaign on his "New Day" programs of increased state outlays for health, welfare and education financed by a 3% sales tax. Assured the G.O.P. nomination, Smylie is favored over any of five candidates entered in the Democratic primary...
...buried the body of Joseph Axminster, another vagabond, so that his two friends in the audience will know what became of him. She also announces that the back of the stage--bare except for a crate that becomes Axminster's coffin and some stools--is the municipal garbage dump and that off to the right is a jail. Her best acting is done later in the show when she play's Axminster's dead body...
Single File. In the ground war, U.S. Marines, cleaning out the mangrove swamps near Saigon in Operation Jackstay, rooted out a major Viet Cong headquarters. Its 25 buildings included a hospital, classrooms, dispensaries, a large ammunition dump and a factory for the manufacture of water mines used to harass shipping into Saigon. The Reds had fled so quickly that the food on the tables was still...
...stopped smoking after his 1955 heart attack, told Secret Service men to order reporters entering the office to ditch their lighted cigarettes. He also took to thrusting ashtrays at visitors, and recently, while walking with a guest outside his office, swooped down to pick up a crushed butt and dump it in an ashtray...