Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the U.S. Cigar Manufacturers Association called on the President and Congress to plug this loophole. In Tampa, more than 600 cigarmen have already been laid off. But manufacturers seemed in no hurry to follow the leader to the Canaries. Asked James J. Corral, president of the 657-man Corral-Wodiskay Cia.: "What if you establish a factory there and they change the rules of the game on you? You've lost a lot of money, that...
More than 35,000 German and other NATO troops were committed to the rescue operations. Even floatable barrels were pressed into service to save flood victims. German air force planes dropped 350,000 sandbags to plug holes in the dikes; helicopters fluttered over drowning villages picking up survivors and dropping milk for starving infants. In Hamburg, Danish frogmen dived beneath the waters to hunt for bodies: for six hours two Bundeswehr soldiers stood in shoulder-deep water holding two children piggyback. The parents of the children finally succumbed to exhaustion and slipped beneath the flood tide. It was so cold...
...again he quit, scraping together $97.50 to start a tiny business making an electric socket he had designed. It failed miserably ("It was a grim year. I had to pawn my wife's kimono"), but he struggled along with subcontract work until he developed an electrical attachment plug that could be sold for 30% less than his competitors' plugs. By the time he was 27, he was a success...
...Down My Walking Chow Mein. Last week, turning to television, Freberg outdid himself on an hour-long "Salute to the Chinese New Year." In his shrewd parodies of familiar television fare, Freberg so amused the critics that they genially forgave him for turning the program into one long plug for Chinese chow, capped by the slogan: "Buy two cans of our chow mein: one for now and one for when you're hungry an hour later...
Died. Robert Allen Stranahan Sr., 75, bluff board chairman of Toledo's Champion Spark Plug Co. (and father of Professional Golfer Frank Stranahan), who started making spark plugs as a hobby after his graduation from Harvard in 1908, ultimately built his spare-time enterprise into a $100 million business in automotive parts and accessories; after a long illness; in Toledo...