Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twice as much action, twice as much accomplishment" in the next year, reported that loans ($430 million since December) were already flowing at almost twice the year-ago rate, personally signed twelve new loans worth $46 million. After the formalities, Johnson conducted his guests into the Cabinet Room for tea and another demonstration of maximum effort. When an ambassador wondered why Congress was holding up a U.S. appropriation to the World Bank's International Development Association, Johnson grabbed a phone to call White House Legislative Aide Larry O'Brien: "What's going on with fhe IDA bill...
...labor" on the Aswan job were the Egyptian fellahin. Swarming to the site in quest of the relatively high pay (up to $1.20 a day including overtime), the Egyptians often slept under tarpaulins that flapped in the blast-furnace desert wind, ate their rice and drank their syrupy tea mixed with sand. When blasting shocks crumpled a temporary dam above the diversion channel last July, and the onrushing Nile threatened 5,000 workers in the incompleted turbine shafts, thousands of fellahin swarmed in with sand and other fill, saved the whole project from disaster. An amazing spirit swept through...
...Western manager for the 1960 ticket: "We had a big event scheduled for Lodge in Albuquerque. He got as far as St. Louis, then had to turn back home as his nerves were frazzled and he was worn out physically." New York State Chairman Fred Young calls Lodge "a tea-and-crumpets candidate...
...blow to "save our world-renowned fish chowder from degenerating into an insipid broth." As all seasoned slurpers should know, New England fish chowder is full of dangerous objects-from bones to bits of shell. And when Priscilla Webster swallowed without seining at Boston's Blue Ship Tea Room, she got a bone in her throat that required hospital extraction. Miss Webster sued, won a jury verdict of $1,800. On reversing it, the Supreme Court absolved the restaurant of responsibility for the damage done by "the bone of contention," even though "we sympathize with the plaintiff, who suffered...
COCA-COLA CO.'s expansion plans have recently put it into the orange-juice, diet-pop and instant-tea business. Last week Coke announced a new addition that fits in with what President J. Paul Austin calls its new "total refreshment" concept. It acquired Houston's Duncan Foods Co., purveyors of coffee under a number of brand names (Fleetwood, Butter-Nut, Admiration). Austin, 49, who joined Coca-Cola's legal department in 1949 and was named president two years ago, sees the merger as another step toward Coke's first $1 billion year (1963 sales...