Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ives. Since Averell Harriman has so far refused to accept the nomination, party leaders may have to fall back on Manhattan Borough President Robert Wagner Jr., son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In that case, the Republicans would have an advantage, but the Democrats may dump Wagner in favor of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. There is an argument among Democrats over whether Junior's name balances his political immaturity which was strikingly evident in Chicago...
...Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural gas that lights up some fields at night, of spherical storage tanks, huge gate valves, heavy flow lines and brightly lit cracking plants. There was a symbol of oil in war-two G.I.s tensely guarding a fuel dump on Sai-pan-and a salute to oil in peace-a gay sailfishing party riding the Gulf Stream in a power cruiser...
...changing. The Atlantic Refining Company, sponsor of the nation-wide broadcasts of Ivy League contests, has decided to switch to the steadier professional game. The old fan now sits in his living room choosing his afternoon entertainment from a channeled selection. If he misses the late fall feeling of dump concrete, cold hot dogs and warm brandy, if he misses the "Peanuts," the "Get your colors," of a bright autumn day, he isn't talking...
...Democrats, and it seemed high time for someone to do something about it. Four years ago Ike Eisenhower was the Democratic idol: in 1945 Harry Truman himself promised to help Ike get the presidency if he wanted it, and in 1948 a powerful bloc of Democratic liberals tried to dump Truman and run Ike at the Democratic Convention. Now Ike stood a good chance of getting the Republican nomination in July...
...bases around the globe Air Force operational performances are remarkably high, and morale excellent-despite the bad taste of the "stay down" strike of some reservists in the U.S.* Last month, for example, when a fighter-bomber group in Korea was assigned to attack a camouflaged enemy supply dump with its aging F-80s, every clerk, pencil-pusher and chairborne officer turned out voluntarily to help get the planes...