Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall the Italian government looked around for new funds to plug a deficit in its Soccorso Invernale (Winter Help for the Needy). Already taxed were theaters, movies, authors' copyrights, railroad tickets, streetcar fares, ski lifts and admission tickets to gambling casinos and race tracks. The next step, the government decided, was to tax track bets as well. Last year Italian horseplayers bet 30 billion lire ($48,000,000), and 1% of that sum would have been ample to help the Winter Help. But a clerk in the Ministry of Interior tripped over his decimals in drafting...
After two years in office, the Eisenhower Administration has failed to plug the yawning gap in its foreign policy?the place where history, logic, opportunity and the poverty of the world cry out for U.S. leadership on a free worldwide front of economic advance. In the year's closing months, the President, despite strong opposition in his own Cabinet, seemed to be moving toward a positive policy for liberalized world trade and stimulated production. Dulles favors such a program. But he has been too busy with the international politics of his job to give it his own leadership...
...Robert A. Stranahan Jr., 39, half-brother of famed Golfer Frank Stranahan, moved up to take over from his father the presidency of Champion Spark Plug Co., the nation's largest sparkplug company. R. A. Stranahan Sr., 68, and his brother, Frank D. Stranahan, 78, millionaire founders of the company, become co-chairmen of the board. Young Bob Stranahan graduated from Toledo's Scott High School, put in seven years on the production line, in the shipping room, engineering and sales departments before getting his first executive position...
...Cullen's has been permitted to fall by Almighty God." Then Cullen responded to the praise: "I feel humble. I am sorry the good Lord didn't give me a little more ego so I could feel great." After minimizing himself, Oilman Cullen put in a plug for his biography: "I became convinced that the only way to counteract some of the false theories abroad in the land would be to meet these with the true story of an American boy who by hard work, faith, honesty and courage, pushed obstacles aside and succeeded in life only because...
...Filho has already shown a magnificent disregard for personal popularity. Determined to plug all possible dollar-exchange leaks, he angered federal Senators and Deputies by canceling their highly prized privilege of bringing a new car into the country every few years. Determined to hold down expenditures, he vetoed a bill to raise the pay of government doctors, stuck to his decision, though the doctors threatened a nationwide strike...