Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FAST TAX WRITE-OFF for Idaho Power Co.'s Hells Canyon Darn (TIME, April 15 et seq.) will be canceled if Congress passes bill by Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter to wipe out all fast write-offs, except for new weapons, retroactive...
Warning to users of tranquilizing drugs: they should not be taken with alcohol. At San Francisco's Langley Porter Clinic three University of California researchers gave about four jiggers of bourbon each to 18 alcoholics, told them to lie down on a surgical table. Most subjects complied, made no fuss. A week later they got the whisky with the tranquilizer chlorpromazine: some lay down on the table, promptly went to sleep and snored loudly; others became loud and boisterous; some were "gay and irresponsible"; most had slurred speech. By blood tests, the researchers found that the drug...
McClellan Adviser Q. L. Porter recalls an early strategy conference: "John said, 'If McMath wants a fight, he can sure get one with me.' I said, 'John, if you go in there with that attitude, he's gonna whip the pants off you. That's the only way people can ever beat you-by making you mad. And here you sit in my office, and you're mad already, and the campaign hasn't even started...
...dignitaries dutifully turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent a day as a fish porter-a sight which, according to Radio Peking, "greatly inspired" the populace...
...hear what Lucky Jim is really too gentle to tell, the reader must turn to an unlucky Jim-James Porter, irascible hero of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (TIME, April 22). Look Back is a high-decibel three-act diatribe, mainly on mom, wife, God and country. Hero Jimmy has just written a poem called "The Cess Pool." His wife hovers over an ironing board-one of the endemic props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly...