Word: tex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...
GALVESTON, Tex., May 31--Gov. Earl Long of Louisiana was reported to-night to be resting in a psychiatric clinic and "presently not under any theraputic care...
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., May 19--James Hoffa today threatened a nationwide strike of all labor if Congress harnesses unions with antitrust laws...
Ford's announcement is sure to put pressure on competitors to announce definite plans for a small car. Only the day before the Ford announcement, Chrysler President Lester ("Tex") Colbert revealed that Chrysler has already spent $40 million to develop a six-cylinder small car with a 105-110-in. wheelbase. With a slap at Chevy's rear-engine small car, Colbert said the engine in Chrysler's car will be in front, "where it belongs." But Colbert emphasized that Chrysler will not decide whether to produce its cars until "late summer," added that he would withhold...
...unified; we don't have any parties in this thing," Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) said. "A common and unified posture," Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois added...