Word: sinclairism
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...have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. So wrote Upton Beall Sinclair of an era that cried out for reform at almost every level of American life. He was a quixotic dreamer, an eccentric, a compulsive dissenter in the intellectual tradition of a Thoreau or a Tom Paine. Yet Sinclair, who died last week at 90 in a New Jersey nursing home, battled so many causes to the finish that the American conscience and the quality of American life were permanently affected by his concern, courage and compassion. And, more than six decades...
...most celebrated novel was The Jungle, published in 1906, which told the harrowing story of a Lithuanian immigrant worker in Chicago's meat-packing industry. Though Sinclair's main intention was to dramatize the plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory...
...light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country for a while...
...take on B.P.'s green and yellow colors, should help considerably. They outnumber B.P.'s own chain in Britain (4,900 stations), will bring B.P.'s worldwide total to 36,000 stations. To pay for them, B.P. has worked out a scheme that is fancier than Sinclair's Dino Dollars game. Because of the weakness of the pound, Her Majesty's government would never approve payment of $300 million in sterling. So B.P. plans to pay in dollars over a six-year period beginning in 1972. That is just about when the company...
...always in a spot of bother, in one political situation or another," says Drake, who is 58. "It's just the way we make our daily bread." Should Drake's plans come a cropper, perhaps through continued Justice opposition to the Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield merger, B.P. promises to have another bash at the U.S. before long...