Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amiable man with tired policies [who spreads] the contagion of his own confusion"; 2) the Administration has "dulled" the nation as to the U.S.S.R.'s strengths and the U.S.'s weaknesses with "sugarcoated half-truths"; and 3) the U.S. has developed a way of life in which truck drivers, bricklayers and factory workers are often better paid than professors, in which "an Elvis Presley makes more than the President...
Nuts & Jolts. In the Docking bid were such jolts as a 1? reduction in gasoline taxes (to be offset by a truck ton-mile tax), which pleased the oil companies, the railroads and plain, ordinary car owners; a 5% salary increase for state college and university teachers; slightly bigger corporation taxes, which outraged business but pleased Kansas' growing labor unions. Chuckles old Banker Docking: "This is one of those bankers' Machiavellian ideas. I dreamed up the gas tax-reduction plan all by myself, and later some of my people tried to talk me out of it. I said...
...respected dailies, the dignified Monitor permits itself the one gentle brag that it publishes "everything that a well-informed person should know." Since 90% of its press run is mailed to subscribers in the U.S. and 120 other countries. Boston's Monitor ("An International Daily Newspaper") has no truck with trivia, concentrates instead on solid, staff-written interpretative reporting that its editors expect will still be relevant days or weeks later. For this reason, the Monitor gets the ultimate tribute of the news profession: its subscribers include 4,000 editors and newspapers throughout the world, some of whom...
English Teacher Ruth Ulferts of the senior high school in Anoka, Minn. (pop. 7,396) regarded the assignment as strictly routine. Write a theme on a book, she told her class; any book will do. Gangling Sophomore Richard Ingledue, 15, son of a truck driver, picked up his pencil, frowned a bit and began...
...FUEL TAX of 2? a gal. stands good chance of being boosted this year. Airlines are protesting on ground of falling profits, but they must fight combined weight of President Eisenhower (who requested a 3½? rate) and heavily taxed train and truck lines...