Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shorts, about 30% of its 1935 peak, and hordes of industrial shorts were turned out in hope of creating a bigger demand. For the regular studios, the competition could be stiff. Reason: while they have to sell their shorts to make a profit, many major corporations are able to dump their industrial films on the general public by paying exhibitors $50 to $100 to show them for a week...
...policeman fingered his chin. Should he take the thing to jail or to the city dump? And then all at once it started running. In an instant the entire police force was in hippopotamous pursuit. Horses bolted; pedestrians bounced like skittles. But just as the long arm of the law was on his shoulder, the fugitive took a flying leap at the tummy of a startled fat lady. As he hit head first, her midriff split up the middle and swung inward like saloon doors. The fugitive plunged through-and disappeared...
...grey cashmere sweater and four lawyers, called the stockholders' meeting to order. Opposite President Monroe sat M.M.P.'s vice president and minority stockholder (49-4%), sharp little Photographer Milton H. Greene. The agenda: President Monroe merely wished to elect a new board, and in the process to dump Vice President Greene. In 1954 Marilyn, lonely and self-exiled from Hollywood, was befriended by enterprising Promoter Greene. M.M.P.'s contract called for a pooling of their talents and earnings for a period of seven years...
...reference, the New York Times demanded: "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?" In characteristically unclassical American, the tabloid New York Daily News asked: "What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy other than, in a kiddie-sized pet, dump rusty boats and assorted kitchen stoves into the Suez Canal?" The fact was that no happy solution could be seen emerging in the Middle East. In the anger of frustration, voices in Europe and America demanded that...
Harold Stassen, the G.O.P.'s own Peter Piper, has picked himself a peck of pickled political peppers while serving as a presidential assistant on disarmament. First, he plucked himself a hot one when he led the drive to dump Dick Nixon from the 1956 presidential ticket. And then, five weeks ago, he served up his opinion that Nixon was indeed a 1956 liability, and that the Republicans could have won control of Congress if Massachusetts' Christian Herter rather than Nixon had been the vice-presidential nominee. Fellow Republicans glowered, wondered how long, O Ike, before Harold is sent...