Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When a house built by a nonunion contractor (TIME, April 29) was dynamited in 1954, Murphy headlined his lead editorial: GET THE DYNAMITERS! He followed it up in the next ten weeks with eleven more editorials, pounding at local authorities to enlist county and state investigators for the man hunt. By last October, when a jury convicted four union leaders who had ordered the dynamiting, Murphy had racked up 27 editorials on the case, while the Times reporters had unearthed enough dirt to hand the McClellan committee a bulging dossier...
...this Southern gentleman wanted to do was fish, hunt and watch his cows. But President Eisenhower pressed him once again into service, and South Carolina's longtime Democratic Congressman James Richards ranged into the squalls of the Middle East to measure the free world's friends. For an evaluation of Richards' mission to date, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Doctrine's First Fruits...
...steps of the river entrance to the Pentagon, Four-Star General Curtis LeMay, 50, hard-boiled boss of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, rolled his ever-present panatela around in his mouth, fingered the new mustache he had grown in his recent big-game hunt in Africa with Arthur Godfrey, and mulled the reasons for this sudden command appearance before the top Pentagon brass. The scuttlebutt had told: he was to be offered the job of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Curt LeMay took three days to think over the idea. Last week he reappeared...
Currently, Perkins spends $250,000 a year in the hunt for new roses (and $1,800,000 on ads and other promotion), employs a top geneticist, Eugene S. Boerner, as his chief hybridizer. Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing. From some 250,000 plants nursed along to the bloom stage, less than half a dozen new ones are selected each year to go into J. & P.'s catalogue. A single rose may cost $50,000 to develop, but royalties on a single rose have hit $500,000, so, says...
...bearing Iranian government offers of $65,000 for her safe return. Military escorts were ordered for all American vehicles in the area, and more than 1,000 soldiers and gendarmes were deployed to comb the bandit haunts. U.S. and Iranian planes crisscrossed the desert to warn the bandits the hunt was on and to give hope to Mrs. Carroll if she was still alive...