Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) have such a long trunk and short legs, walk so badly? To Paris Pediatrician Gaston Levy, the Moulin Rouge explanation (bone fractures at the ages of 13 and 14) is silly. His own "highly probable hypothesis'': the artist suffered from polyepiphyseal dysplasia, or defects at the bone ends, where growth takes place. This fitted the known facts that Toulouse-Lautrec appeared normal as an infant, had poor growth from the age of nine, thereafter had difficulty getting up from a chair, and walked in a clumsy duck waddle...
...travel boom the U.S. airline industry is moaning low. Though revenues for the first five months of 1957 hit a record $618 million, the airlines reckon their total net operating income at barely $14 million-down by a staggering 63.5% from last year. Five of the twelve major trunk lines-Capital, Northeast, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines-reported that they were operating in the red, and airline shares have lost 30% to 40% of their market value since 1955. This week, after a long, bitter campaign, the airmen will present their final arguments to the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...policy board argue that U.S. airlines are not so badly off as the operators claim, that the net operating income of previous years-a fat $224 million for 1955 and 1956-should carry the lines through any turbulence in 1957. Even this year, say the critics, U.S. domestic trunk lines will fly an estimated 41 million passengers, 10% more than the 1956 record, and enough to assure possibly a 20% return on investment v. the standard 8% return CAB considers "reasonable...
...stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly policed the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co., and waitresses and farm hands all got a share of profits that now total $45.9 million...
Problems & Precedent. .Talmadge's stem-winding oratory was deflated by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, whose Middle Eastern trip last month made him a firmer advocate of Eisenhower foreign policy. "If one wishes to engage in finding very little blisters on the trunk of the great oak tree," said Democrat Humphrey, "it is possible to make it appear that the oak is almost ready to collapse, or that it never should have been a tree in the first place. But if one considers the totality of the program and does not concentrate on a little error here...