Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco newsboy, eying a pile of free copies of the Times in a hotel lobby, protested Ioudly; "What a lousy trick!" San Francisco newspaper executives were more discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper e.g., the opposition of the typographical unions, the problem of handling local advertising. Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge who pronounced the experiment a technical success granted that the paper had not yet thought through such problems. But he said that the Times was looking ahead to distributing its editions not only...
...Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...
Slashed Tendons. Rock Quarry, Georgia's "Little Alcatraz" for incorrigible convicts, is a new (1950), clean but forbidding building guarded by two turreted towers. To Rock Quarry go the unruly convicts from other state prisons for twelve-month terms on the rock pile, a nearby granite quarry. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with three hours out for lunch and rest), under the eyes of hard-eyed guards armed with Winchesters and heavy sticks, they smash granite and push wheelbarrows. The discipline is as rough as the work. Five years ago 31 convicts staged a protest against both...
...Flags of Convenience." Niarchos is able to haul oil cheaper than U.S. producers can in their own tankers and pile up fabulous profits because, like most independents, he whittles operating costs to the bone, runs all but a few of his ships under "flags of convenience." Registered by mail order in Panama or Liberia, the ships pay only nominal taxes,* e.g., 10? a ton yearly, employ nonunion crews and are unlikely ever to be seized for defense reasons. Niarchos, in addition, pays no corporate taxes on most of his profits. These are considerations which no banker can afford to overlook...
From the test tube have come drugs that helped add eight years to life expectancy in the U.S. (from 62 to 70 at birth) since 1941, boosted population. At the same time, to the discomfiture of Malthusians, new fertilizers, insecticides and other chemicals have helped pile up the greatest food surpluses ever. Man has learned to cruise undersea on nuclear power, fly at supersonic speeds; research has trebled the number of metals used by industry, made diamonds from common carbon (see cut), and conjured up thousands of new products...