Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubert H. Humphrey type (right down to being, like Humphrey, an import from South Dakota). Although he still has the edge in the state's Fifth District, Walter Judd may nave been hurt by the fact that many of his constituents were thrown out of work by a shutdown of the Minneapolis-Moline Co. farm-implement plant. In Missouri's Sixth District, Democratic In cumbent William Hull Jr., 50, is threatened by Republican Stanley I. Dale Jr., 35, who scored a remarkable upset when elected mayor of Democratic St. Joseph in 1950 and another impressive victory when...
...TIME. Sept. 3), went down for the third time last week-and most of its 800 employees counted it drowned. Bravely, the paper's three court-appointed trustees announced that they were still negotiating with prospective buyers and hoped to get the paper sold. But in ordering a shutdown "until further notice," they admitted that no deal was in sight to justify carrying the paper's weekly operating loss. Boston's other dailies began pitching energetically for the Post's 255,000 daily circulation and its Sunday circulation...
...Cyprus was expected to be around 6,000. Added to the 25,000 professional British soldiers and airmen estimated to be on the island, this made a sizable striking force for airborne action should a lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly...
...blood. But Adair's was a stubborn case. After 24 hours he remained in coma. Alarmed, hospital doctors got Adair transferred to U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where researchers had been experimenting on dogs with a fluid-exchange method called peritoneal dialysis, originally devised to tide patients over a kidney shutdown...
...seriously thought of a political career until the New Order of Cincinnatus tagged him for the city council. Once in office, he turned practical reformer with a vengeance. Langlie and his reform colleagues, though they were the minority, forced centralized city purchasing, establishment of a police training school, a shutdown of gambling halls and brothels, and a $2,000,000 slash in a fat budget. In 1936 the Cincinnatus decided to run one of their councilmen for mayor, picked Arthur Langlie. He lost to Dave Beck's friend, John Dore, by 5,000 votes, filed again two years later...