Word: planked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farmer (motto: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living") and the Hi-Bred (a play on hybrid) Corn Co. Believing, correctly, that the farm depression would drag down the entire economy, he later enlisted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first brain trust. Wallace wrote F.D.R.'s farm plank in 1932. Then he assumed the herculean task of implementing it as Agriculture Secretary during the first two Roosevelt administrations...
...have invaded all branches of the government on a nationwide and more massive scale." The Nacionalistas have tried to use the report against Macapagal, but have been unable to pin anything on him since his personal record is remarkably clean for a Filipino politician. Anticorruption has become the main plank in the campaign of a third candidate in the race, ex-Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus, who left the Liberal Party to run for the presidency as leader of the reform-minded Party for Philippine Progress...
...riding on the outcome-doubled the best previous gross. "We'll be singing and jawing at each other and having a time as big as my foot," announces Festus as they reach each town. Which means declining nary a radio interview and likely, after the show, laying a plank across a couple of sawhorses to sign autographs for up to two hours...
Brothers on a Plank. Samsonite still bears the image of Biblicist Jesse Shwayder, who founded it in 1910 with $3,500. He brought his four brothers into the firm, introduced plywood-frame luggage and emphasized its strength with advertising that pictured the five Shwayder brothers standing on a plank supported only by a piece of their luggage. Shwayder retired in 1962, turned over control of the family-owned corporation to his son King David Shwayder and two able sons-in-law. Now 83, he still calls to offer them ideas...
Harold Wilson's Labor government last week published its long-awaited blueprint for nationalizing Britain's steel industry, the fifth largest in the world. Though steel nationalization is the most controversial plank in the Socialists' platform, Wilson's White Paper was tough, uncompromising - and expensive...