Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...props (including a horse and pet monkey), Chandler lampooned his opponents without mercy and with considerable corn. His chief targets: Governor Lawrence Wetherby ("Wetherbine") and Senator Earle Clements ("Clementine"), the acting majority leader of the U.S. Senate and absentee Democratic boss of Kentucky. Happy has made much of a rug in Wetherby's office, which he says cost $20,000, and of an $863,200 bill for air-conditioning the state Capitol...
Wetherby produced an invoice to prove that the rug cost only $2,720, and pointed out that the $863,200 paid for a new heating plant for the Capitol, plus wiring, plumbing, and other renovations, as well as air conditioning. But Happy paid no attention. "Did you ever see a $20,000 rug?" he asked his audiences. "When I get elected, you all come to Frankfort, and we'll take our shoes off and walk...
...life are obscured by stubborn legend. Born in a suburb of Constantinople, less than a decade after the huge oil reserves of Russia were first tapped, Gulbenkian was said to have been smuggled into England by his father at the age of three, wrapped, like Cleopatra, in a rug. Likelier history suggests that he came later and in more orthodox fashion to take an engineering degree at London's King's College. Whatever the case, his first impact on the oil business occurred when he visited the oilfields of Baku and published a scholarly article about them...
OILMAN GLENN MCCARTHY, onetime king of the wildcatters, has found backers for his comeback attempt in Bolivia (TIME, May 16). A group of investors headed by Manhattan Rug Importer Robert Keljikan has put up $4,160,000 for a 50% interest in McCarthy's Bolivian oil field near Villa Montes, where he has already brought in two wells, one oil, one gas. McCarthy's forecast: between 35 and 45 wells in production, with 5,000 bbls. daily, within 17 months...
...took the police only a few hours to find him. Jose Vargas, 15, nicknamed "Chico Mambo'' because "I cut a cute rug." had a long history of delinquency (he was once arrested for holding up a younger boy at knife point), proudly announced that he had not been in school since April. He was also apparently proud of the stabbing. When photographers snapped his picture, it was of just one more arrogant, smirking young hoodlum who knows no law but that of the blackboard jungle. Said seriously injured Teacher O'Tarrell, when asked...