Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much and so long to produce beef ready for market, and without price support, you're going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder. One answer is for small operators to sell directly to the consumer who has ac cess to home freezers and commercial lock ers. A cushion for seasonal fluctuations is the answer to inflation, labor unions, fairtrade agreements...
...film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting that the trial be held...
Feeling against foreigners was already strong in Germany in 1926, and Kistiakowsky, in the country on a student's visa, left for the US and a Rockefeller grant. He came to Harvard in 1930 and quickly moved up the academic ladder to a name chair and a stint as department chairman...
...turned and sprinted precariously along 100 yards of bare girders to the nearest ladder, scrambled down it to the street, dived through the traffic stream and raced 100 yards back to the apartment building. He was below the window just as the boy-Francis Xavier Lamadrid-lost his balance and came sailing down. Sarno braced himself. Frightened women spectators screamed. But seconds later, with the force of his fall broken, the child was safe in Sarno's brawny arms. Astounded passersby, screened from the catch by a billboard, assumed that Sarno had caught...
...unionists. Flint's old (78) Charles Stewart Mott, a multimillionaire director of (and once the largest single stockholder in) General Motors, came wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. He was furious when a foreman refused to let him climb a ladder to nail roofing. "They think I'm too old," he stormed. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...