Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Results:1) the President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate begins this week...
...mushroom cloud," said Hotelman Paul Ryan. Instead he saw a 300-ft. pillar of flame. One squad car flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were his uniform buttons...
...disintegrating government slapped a 24-hour-a-day police guard on Soustelle. Grinning as he displays his knowledge of underworld argot, Soustelle recalls: "I decided to take a powder." With the professional expertise of the old spy master, Soustelle slipped out of his Paris apartment hidden under a pile of luggage in a neighbor's car and crossed the border to Switzerland ("Of course, I had a false identity"). Two days later he was in Algiers, whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working behind the scenes to ensure that the insurrection did not grow...
...stem the union's expected attack. Cried Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald: "The astronomical profit figures completely demolish the excuse the companies have used to force this shutdown. How can they possibly justify a heartless denial of needed benefits to their workers, who have produced this mammoth pile of profits...
...secondary-school students filled notebooks with the theory of computers as expounded by visiting Professor Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener himself. At Northwestern's engineering labs in Evanston, 96 boys and girls studied why quicksand becomes quick, and found out the most economical way of sifting and smelting a pile of copper...