Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...branch plant. Ford moved an assembly plant into Atlanta, General Motors began building Chevrolets, then Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks in Atlanta too. Purchasing power brought refrigerator plants, refrigerator plants brought enameling plants. Dairy processors and meat packers came along as Southern workers began eating higher & higher on the hog. An estimated 14% of all U.S. industry now lies in the Southeastern...
These difficulties pain hog-raisers as well as piglets, but conservative farmers consider them inherent hazards of the business, subject at best to minor improvements. Not all non-farmers, however, are quite so pessimistic. Last week, on a farm at Shoemakersville, Pa., platoons of little pigs were enjoying a peril-free infancy, courtesy of Chas. Pfizer & Co., manufacturers of pharmaceuticals (TIME...
...Hollywood average; some of it, evidently contributed by Co-Scripter S. N. Behrman, helps Actor Leo Genn to shine as Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last...
...even more disturbing is youth's certainty that Government will take care of it-a feeling which continues despite a good deal of political distrust of Government. Reports TIME'S Seattle Bureau: "The Pacific Northwest is only yesterday removed from the frontier, but the 'root, hog, or die' spirit has almost disappeared. Into its place has moved a curious dependence on the biggest new employer-Government. A 28-year-old aerodynamics specialist at Boeing says: 'I hope to work toward an income of $500 or $600 a month, after taxes. You know, only...
...Isabelle Buckley wanted to start a school in Los Angeles, and she knew exactly what sort of school she wanted it to be. Those were the days (1933) "when children were allowed to run hog-wild-with the blessings of pundits and psychologists alike. I didn't like it, and I resolved that there should be order in my school." But after weeks of doorbell ringing around Los Angeles, Mrs. Buckley* could find only eight children whose parents were willing to try the orderly, old-fashioned Buckley...