Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solve the problem, the U.S. Government stepped in last week with more of the same distasteful medicine it has been pressuring the industry to swallow for months. Instead of cutting domestic production, it will insist that major oil companies chop back their imports of cheaper foreign oil under a "voluntary" 10% reduction program (TIME, Sept. 30). Having already rejected appeals by three companies (Tidewater, Indiana Standard Oil, Ohio Standard) for sizable boosts in their import quotas. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr., administrator of the program, also turned down Eastern States Petroleum Co. and Sinclair Oil Co., even though Sinclair...
Into the Mud. With the aplomb of a man who has had such a request before, the ambassador rounded up his equipment and loaded it into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where...
Tito's toast to Gomulka would then be something that the Russians, instead of the Germans, might find hard to swallow...
...Brocton (possibly located in Pennsylvania), he belongs to a comfortable upper class that has the attitudes if not the acreage of landed gentry. Within a 49-hour period, fissures of revelation about Winner's closest friends-and about himself-rip open this safe and stolid world, and almost swallow...
...pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill that most of the South could swallow (including Texan Lyndon Johnson), that Dick Russell would not filibuster against, and that Bill Knowland and Northern Democrats could hold up as a symbol of civil rights progress...