Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notorious landlady. When Bill overhears Carlye phone for two men to carry out something that weighs 160 lbs., he gets rather queasy about the evening cookout. He sloshes his Scotch from cheek to cheek like a chipmunk hoarding for a famine and finally gulps it like a plug of tobacco. His pouring hand is so erratic with the lighter fluid that he practically charcoal-broils the house...
...rewrite, so as to give business a better tax break, the depreciation schedules on industrial equipment. It has promised such a revision by July 6. and it can deliver on that vow by executive action, without the approval of Congress. Far more important is overall tax reform, which would plug the loopholes in the present code and lower :he rates on both the personal income tax and the corporation tax. The tax reform bill was originally promised for mid-1962, has now unfortunately been postponed at least until late 1962. Moving ahead at a faster pace on broad tax reform...
...peculiar behavior of the TV networks in granting Mr. Kennedy free time to plug the King-Anderson medical care bill, and their shoddy treatment of the A.M.A. when it attempted to obtain equal time for a rebuttal, make one wonder if the networks are afraid to incur the wrath of the President for fear of being treated like the steel companies...
Coral Buses & Floor Shows. However many papers Chalk does sell in Puerto Rico, they will reach the island aboard Trans Caribbean Airways, another Chalk enterprise. Chalk likes to have his multifarious businesses give one another a helping hand. His newspapers can be expected to plug Trans Caribbean. Similarly, Trans Caribbean once had ticket counters in the offices of Washington's Chalk-owned D.C. Transit System, Inc. And D.C. Transit's buses, not surprisingly, will ultimately have a terminal in Chalk Center, a $27 million office building, hotel and shopping complex to be erected next year in southwest Washington...
...make a speech, Tribune Publisher and Owner John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, accepted his paper's fall from grace with more good humor than his editors had. As a result, he was alert enough to sneak in a plug for a paper that has been vastly improved under his aegis. "To ascribe as a reason [for the cancellation] that the President has time to read just so many newspapers," said Whitney, "just doesn't jibe with the fact that on the Eastern seaboard the Tribune is the paper everyone...