Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South who still have control of our faculties are not responsible for the opinions of Mr. Balch and State Senator Eddins. It is unfortunate that many of your readers will identify this trite nonsense as the philosophy of all those south of the Mason-Dixon Line...
...burden of the defense-beyond pleading that the rapists were not responsible for their crime by reason of youth or mental deficiency-was that the girl had willingly joined in sexual intercourse. That line was devastatingly rebutted by Deputy Sheriff W. W. Slappey, the first cop to talk to the victim after the crime. Asked to describe her condition, Slappey said that she was trembling, crying, "jerking all over and hysterical...
...Haven's steep decline began in 1954, when a syndicate headed by Financier Patrick B. McGinnis won control of the line. McGinnis promptly cut service and maintenance, issued truculent public statements to commuters, who protested (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). McGinnis was finally forced out after a bitter commuters' revolt, and into his place stepped quiet, fiddle-playing Lawyer George Alpert -who differs from McGinnis in being more polite...
...Trouble. As production has increased, consumption has dropped from 383 eggs per capita a year in 1949 to 359 due to dieters skipping heavy breakfasts and some fear of cholesterol in egg yolks. To bring production more in line with consumption, many a big producer thinks that the Government should stay out of the market, let competition eliminate marginal producers. Says N.A. McNally, who operates a 100,000-chicken farm near Los Angeles: "If the Government had just let things alone, some marginal producers would have been dropping out of the picture by now. I mean...
...Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers, who engage in a mass wife beating when the wives...