Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dillinger & the Pope. Sack got into the theater business by accident. The son of immigrant Russian Jews, Sack owned four meat markets by the time he was 19, lost them at 20 when the Depression hit. Turning to a truck driver's job with a scrap-metal firm owned by his in-laws, he soon wound up owning the company and by World War II was a happy "junkman" grossing $15 million annually...
Most of the observations have not yet been interpreted, but U.S. scientists are cherishing every scrap of data. Eventually they hope to piece it all together to determine what the spectacular blast meant for the security of the U.S. and the gains and perils of probing into space with man's most powerful weapon...
...servant to preside over the projected liquidation of the Queen's empire (Kenya. Uganda, the West Indies). He has great ability, but usually fails to work hard in fields that do not interest him; economics interests him very much. The big question: whether, through Maudling, Macmillan intends to scrap Selwyn Lloyd's line and move toward inflation ("reflation." as it is currently known in Britain); or whether, in the midst of the crucial negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, he will try to keep to his anti-inflationary policies, merely putting a more amiable...
Beyond all his verbal assurances, President Kennedy has taken some actions to conciliate business. He has appointed his chief adversary in the steel scrap...
...them, embarrassed by their jobs, try to pass them off as way to eat. In a recent instance, one said, " mundane demands of life met by employment, since the service of Standard Oil (New Jersey) . . ." while it this way: "The steel and scrap, has become my way of life, and it's all right, for eating...