Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settled in Rock Springs, Wyo., where he got a job on the Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife and two sons, wandered for a year before he got a job as a railroad car inspector. "But somehow I paint," he recalls. "It was the only thing that keep...
Miss Bacall, who in actuality was Mrs. Bogart and also Den-Mother of the Hombly Hills Rat Pack (a fraternal social order of which Mr. Bogart was Head Rat), is in the movie as beautiful and talented as she ever was and is. She rats on him on occasion, but, I can assure future viewers, in the end she is all right--with viewers and Bogey too. She is a nice kid who falls in with a bad crowd. In fact, the only thing seriously wanting here is a chase of some substantial dimension, and I feel it my duty...
...enforce integration. ¶ The Senate passed by voice vote, and sent to the House, a bill requiring automobile dealers to display on new cars the manufacturer's suggested retail price, the cost of each accessory and a total delivery price. Bill's aim: to eliminate the price pack, a device used by some dealers to raise the total price on new cars to balance off generous trade-in allowances on old models...
...mood of the airport crowd was set an hour before the Nixons' silver-and-white Air Force DC-6B touched down. A pack of 200 students, skillfully whipped up by older men, hoisted bed sheets painted with the slogans of international Communism, blew rubber Bronx-cheer whistles and shouted, "Get out, Nixon!" When the good-will guests walked smiling down the plane's steps, The Star-Spangled Banner and a 21-gun salute were drowned in an ugly howl of hatred...
...price pack" which pads the cost of new cars with phony charges, the auto industry last week got some help from the Senate Commerce Committee. It voted to require manufacturers to stick a "suggested" retail price on each car delivered. Sponsored by Senators "Mike" Monroney and Strom Thurmond, the bill also requires automakers to list suggested prices for optional equipment and accessories, calls for fines of $1,000 on each untagged car, $1,000 for each misleading label. The bill, backed by Ford and General Motors, must now clear the full Senate and the House before...