Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honest Abe. In Klamath Falls, Ore., a bidder picked up a bust of Abraham Lincoln for $1.75 at an auction of unclaimed stolen goods, discovered that it was also a savings bank containing $4.50 in coins...
...Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors and Studebaker-Packard also operating five days, the industry's output for the week was 67,100 cars, up from 64,233 the week before. In midweek the year's production to date crossed...
...LINCOLN E. FORD...
...LINCOLN KNOX...
...Rockefeller's own fans had trouble getting tickets. "Nixon Now" banners and badges bloomed everywhere, and the mere mention of the Vice President's name drew storms of applause. A huge photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much help. For his themes, Rocky stuck to above-it-all international problems, and his formal speeches were so high-flown, as Scripps-Howard Correspondent Albert M. Colegrove reported, that they "orbited right...