Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen from the big cities had fought the tax without success. But they got potent allies when oleo manufacturers began making their product from the oils of cottonseed and soybeans-raised in the southern and midwestern states. By the time South Carolina's Congressman L. Mendel Rivers introduced his bill for tax repeal, margarine had become as politically explosive as plutonium...
...Nominated capable Dr. John L. Lewis Jr., unobtrusive son of the United Mine Workers' obtrusive John L., for appointment as senior assistant surgeon in the U.S. Public Health Service...
...Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp ad-libbed his way into a radio job. On the strength of his guest appearances on Information Please and Town Meeting, he was hired as summer substitute for Drew Pearson. "I'll be a humorous news commentator," said Capp, "if I can find any humorous news to comment...
...strike at Chrysler May 12 and started taking a strike vote at General Motors' plants. The United Electrical Workers were threatening to strike General Electric, Westinghouse, and G.M.'s electrical division. Three railroad brotherhoods had called a strike for May 11 against 132 major railroads. And John L. Lewis notified the mine owners that after June 30 (when their contracts expire and the union may legally strike), he wants something better. It looked as if the showdown on the third round was at hand...
...Burton L. Stratton will be the new production manager of the University Press effective August 1. Stratton, formerly secretary and production manager of Henry Holt Company, will replace Alfred V. Jules, who held the post here since...