Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just about the time Jim hit Capitol Hill, OPA Administrator Leon Henderson injudiciously announced plans to put a price ceiling on cottonseed oil. Jim Eastland rose on the Senate floor and delivered a violent attack on Henderson's decision. The ceiling on cottonseed oil was abandoned, 3,500 congratulatory letters poured into Eastland's office, and when his 88 days were up, he returned to Mississippi with an unmistakable light in his eyes, boasting that he had put $50 million in the pockets of Southern cotton growers...
Motor traffic in U.S cities is rapidly going automatic, with electronic computers presiding over its flow. Latest system to go into operation is at Atlanta (pop. 470,000), where Ponce de Leon Avenue has a new-type, all-seeing Big Brother to do the thinking for its traffic cops...
...Ponce de Leon Avenue is Atlanta's main thoroughfare from the east, and it carries heavy traffic during the rush hours. A time clock system has long been used to favor incoming movement in the morning and outgoing movement in the late afternoon, but unexpected bursts of traffic from the ballpark, churches and stores often jam the avenue. Designed to forestall such traffic emergencies, the new system, made by Eastern Industries, Inc., has proved remarkably successful...
Despite the earlier acquittal of Leon J. Kamin '48, former instructor in Social Relations, on many of the same counts, the Government has apparently decided to prosecute Furry on charges arising out of his testimony before the McCarthy subcommittee last winter...
...Dallas this month, eventually wind up in Australia for the Olympics, under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency. The four pictures in dispute: the Addison Gallery of American Art's Skaters by the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Cleveland Museum of Art's The Park, Winter, by Leon Kroll, 71; Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's Fishermen by William Zorach, 69; and National Pastime, by Ben Shahn...