Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore oyster houses, Chesapeake card games and political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story, to the little Negro girl in her everyday...
Tapping the Oyster. Having more than tripled its earnings in five years (to $158 million in 1965), Caterpillar slipped slightly last year. As a capital-goods manufacturer susceptible to economic swings, Cat suffered during the recent downturn from lagging construction, tight credit and curtailment of federal road-building projects. By 1970, however, a four-year, $600 million expansion program will be completed to meet an anticipated surge in worldwide construction, and land development. Says Chairman Blackie: "We have adapted our organization in a manner which treats the world as our oyster...
According to Epstein, Manchester described Johnson in the book as "a crafty schemer," and "an oyster who patiently converts bits of grit into salable pearls." He also says that Manchester pictured Johnson, after three years as Vice-President, as "virtually impotent," and that expecting Johnson to help with Congress was, in Manchester's words, "like expecting an erection from a paramecium. It couldn't work. The creature had no member...
Teddy Roosevelt not only enjoyed taking telephone messages for his six children, he seemed happiest when playing with kids-particularly the noisy, energetic clan of 16 Roosevelt young cousins who congregated in the summers at his sprawling house on Long Island's Oyster Bay. He loved to lead them on cross-country hikes, and if he climbed over a huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped...
...competition between Westinghouse and front-running General Electric for plant-building orders, nuclear power costs have dropped so far that atomic plants in some areas come cheaper than the conventional variety. Nine years ago, the first commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated electricity for 65 mills per kwh. The Oyster Creek plant of Jersey Central Power & Light, due to open next year, is expected to run for 4 mills per kwh, as does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison...