Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scuffed. His Stetson is sweat stained, and his jeans are dirty from the hard labor of running his family's $10 million cattle, farming and packing business in California. He is a taciturn, hard-bitten cowpoke, but he has the U.S. livestock industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more money by importing cattle and sheep...
...Promoted by Army as a solution to the near-impossible anti-missile defense role, Nike-Zeus gets neither the funds necessary for speedup nor the kill order recommended by its critics. One factor: the Pentagon, seldom free to make decisions that are purely military, fears the panic and congressional uproar that would be set off by admission that the U.S. owns no hopeful anti-missile missile...
...Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column in This Week magazine, interests in record-and music-publishing companies and other items, all adding up to an estimated annual income of $500,000. In the general uproar about payola, the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last week inevitably got around to Dick Clark, the nation's most powerful disk jockey...
...week's end, apprehensive over the uproar and still reluctant to give up his salary and fringe benefits for the $19,000 ARPA salary, Critchfield called McElroy from San Diego, resigned before even taking up Government duties. The public controversy, he said, "has most certainly impaired my ability to serve...
...Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey, Dawson & Co. agreed to traffic studies by the Georgia Highway Department, agreed as well to follow the department's recommendations about correct behavior for the Ludowici light...