Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, three out of four U.S. bank vaults, and half of all private safes, are Moslers. They hold, says President Edwin Mosler, two-thirds of the world's negotiable wealth, along with such oddments as the gold spike which joined the first transcontinental railroad, a set of George Washington's false teeth and all the United Nations treaties. Mosler makes everything from a $25 insulated cashbox for householders to a $1,000,000, two-story vault...
...manned by seven bartenders; 17 violinists, with the help of two regular-size orchestras, supplied the music. Among the all-star list of well-behaved, moderate-drinking guests: the Jack Bennys, the Gary Coopers, the Danny Kayes, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Spike Jones, Joan Crawford...
Item Company was sent up to replace battle-worn Baker Company on the hill; the men patched up their prefab bunkers and settled in. Captain Howard ("Spike") Connolly, commanding, set out the bright green battle flag of St. Michael, made for the Marines by Korean orphans. In the next twelve hours, the opposing sides fired off two of the most concentrated artillery and mortar barrages of the war. On about 800 yards of front, the U.S. dropped 32,000 rounds, the Chinese 15,000 rounds. Item Company Marines waited, their eyes strained by sleepless vigilance, endless concussions and flying dust...
...stars has been James A. Wechsler, 36-year-old editor of the Fair Dealing New York Post. But last week when the weekly program was telecast, Editor Wechsler was missing. He had been tossed off the panel of editors, presided over by Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, by the Grand Union grocery chain, the sponsor. The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure...
Gold Star in World War II . . ." She abhorred war, she said, but called on her sex to demand that the U.S. live up to its military responsibilities. When the crowd grew noisy she seized the gavel and whacked away with it like a section hand driving a spike. When she was done, half the delegates came to their feet to cheer. "I would have appreciated a little silence more," said Mrs. India Edwards grimly...