Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power. A genuine organizational genius, he looked south from his Seattle stronghold and saw how he could force his Teamsters on unorganized Los Angeles by threatening to cut off its supplies from the north. The answer lay in regional organization, and by 1937 Beck had set up an eleven-state Western Teamsters Conference, with himself as chairman. The Teamsters' conference system is Beck's proudest organizational achievement, and he has expanded it to establish feudal baronies in the East, South and Central States...
...smile: "My dear friend Paul better come to a little. He owes a great deal to people, just as I do." Meanwhile, Manhattan's Huckster Row was frothing at the mouth even more than usual over another Douglasism, same interview: "It's now the problem of the eleven-year-old mind on Madison Avenue trying to catch up with its own 13-year-old adult [audience...
Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...
...call it, changed all that. It demanded a college degree, then four years of medical study. This basic plan, with some variations, has been adopted by virtually all U.S. medical schools. With at least a year's internship added, it has come to mean at least nine, perhaps eleven years, between high school and the practice of medicine...
Author Bissell has a field day with the phony chatter of theater people and New York conversation generally. And coming from where the girls eat better. he cannot entirely appreciate the Manhattan dames who "have eleven-inch waists, barndoor mouths, and stand around on the sidewalks with their feet at right angles to one another." But he can also be pretty biting about life back home and "the plumbing, dry-battery, wallboard. disk-harrow and axle-grease aristocracy." There speaks a man-Dick Bissell as much as Jack Jordan-caught in the middle between houseboats and station wagons, between...