Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings were an epic of unlucky timing. Also meeting in Washington was the American Society of Newspaper Editors, getting the big speakers and claiming the big, black headlines. Busy being the father of the bride in Missouri was the top Democratic crowd-getter, Harry Truman, who used to pack the armory (capacity 5,000). Away in Monaco at another wedding was Party Treasurer Matt McCloskey, the man most immediately concerned with Democratic fundraising. These key absences, and a number of others, left Paul Butler and the Democratic comptroller, Mrs. Mary Zirkle, to explain the financial crisis...
...Gamble. Within its own borders, Britain had a whopping surplus ($1.2 billion), but Macmillan refused to flirt with any idea of a tax cut. Instead, he increased taxes on company profits, tacked another few shillings on leaf tobacco to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes to 54?, and lifted the subsidy on bread (thus increasing the cost of a loaf to 12?). Mostly he aimed at forcing the public to keep its money in bank or sock instead of buying what should be exported...
Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack a rocket pistol. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...
...year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes (out of 214,000 cast). But regardless of the voters' verdict, the whispering campaign had been damaging...
Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet, two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack an atomic weapon. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...