Word: hotbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meat packer is a major customer for railroad shipping space. Armour, in a conglomerate merger, bought out Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, a manufacturer of railroad equipment. And now, to the disapproval of the government and the outrage of competitors, B-L-H has been getting 90% of new hotbox orders...
...sheriff's deputy is a pointedly jolly individual, known to joke and giggle while in the process of beating a prisoner with his five-pound strap or shoving him into the tiny black steam-heated solitary 'hotbox' cell. The only thing which seems to upset his routine of chuckling brutality is the presence of "Freedom Riders" (He manages to make it sound like an obscenity). He doesn't like...
Patrick B. McGinnis made a million as a Wall Street railroad securities specialist, but his life became a hotbox when he switched to running rails instead of rating them. McGinnis was tossed out as Norfolk Southern chairman after a federal judge fined the line for selling securities without competitive bidding. He next was eased out of the Central of Georgia for highhanding its directors. Then McGinnis got control of the New Haven Railroad and, in an experience that still haunts its 26,000 daily commuters, brought on frequent delays and breakdowns by cutting maintenance. After leaving the New Haven, McGinnis...
...mistake in projects like this one: they have blamed groups of people with less education for not responding to sophisticated language or carrying out complicated programs. But it is impossible to measure success by the accomplishment or failure of one campaign. When a people has been sealed into a hotbox world for centuries, unexposed to the real fruits of ambition, their progress toward equality must be determined on a smaller scale. If a child decides to transfer to a "white" high school, or a group of people really begins to understand that it was not born different but made...
...mistake in projects like this one: they have blamed groups of people with less education for not responding to sophisticated language or carrying out complicated programs. But it is impossible to measure success by the accomplishment or failure of one campaign. When a people has been sealed into a hotbox world for centuries, unexposed to the real fruits of ambition, their progress toward equality must be determined on a smaller scale. If a child decides to transfer to a "white" high school, or a group of people really begins to understand that it was not born different but made...