Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt regime. I, a Democrat, should like to register my opinions . . . Private Schine was, at the time of his induction, just within the 26-year-old limit, and the kind of controversial public figure the Army does not like to han dle. Did his draft number just pop up, accidental-like? Or, as his friends accuse and enemies smirk, as everyone believes, was it drawn? Why wasn't he given a special com mission and/or a special job? Photographers, pharmacists, private detectives et al. get special jobs, and a lot of other people too, like Elliott Roosevelt (who worked...
...Japanese textiles into Britain and lifted the ban on Japanese goods in the colonies. To those who cry that his policy is breaking up the Commonwealth, Rab retorts: "The Empire boys underestimate my intense belief in the Commonwealth. I believe it has resources which will make your eyes pop out. But this is 1954, not 1904. Australia, Canada, South Africa will not be denied association with the U.S. dollar, and on their own terms. We are dealing with a Commonwealth in modern dress." The aim, says Butler, "is to break outwards, to sell more, and thereby to import more...
...suggestion of the local Chamber of Commerce, the Ministerial Alliance of Canyon, Texas (pop. 4,364) started a series of public prayers for rain. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., also in the Southwest's drought area, Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne ordered prayers for rain, too. A few hours later, rain fell...
...monopoly position in the state is often a target for critics, but he has a ready answer. "No one is entitled to any market," says he, "unless he can put out the best product." In Wyoming his product is indisputably the best. His Northern Wyoming Daily News in Worland (pop. 4,202) is one of the few newspapers in the U.S. with a larger circulation (4,276) than the population of the town in which it is published...
When production started near Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000), the townspeople rioted and warned the moviemakers to get out of town before they were shipped out "in black boxes" (TIME, March 16, 1953). Under police protection, Jarrico & Co. kept shooting until the leading lady, Mexican Actress Rosaura Revueltas, was deported as an illegal alien...