Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington pulp mills, the catch for the salmon fishermen. Warren Magnuson's name is on no momentous legislation of the last twelve years, but this omission does not bother him. As Maggie sees it, one of his values is this: "The State of Washington would have to wait about twelve years to get themselves in the same position of seniority with...
...month wait between the primaries and the real preliminaries of election year 1956, the U.S. voter had a little trouble keeping his eyes open. The U.S. was at peace, its people were more prosperous than ever, President Eisenhower was on the mend, and moderation was the spirit of the day. The voter nodded drowsily while Democratic candidates trudged busily around the country. Last week he woke up with a start to discover that Adlai Stevenson held a runaway lead for the Democratic nomination. And next week even the most somnolent of the U.S.'s 120 million televiewers will know...
...Long Wait. The case now goes automatically to Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas, who can reduce or suspend but not increase the sentence, or can order a retrial. After his decision a three-man military board of review must take another look. Such steps normally take months. And while they are under way, Marine McKeon will remain restricted to a ten-mile area around Parris Island, uncertain until the last whether he is finally to be read out of the corps in disgrace...
...split screen. ¶ At Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, two entire floors are being transformed into TV studios; cameras are being moved in on floors where delegates will sleep, play and caucus. At San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a special TV crew will lie in continuous wait for Harold Stassen. ¶ The networks have also marshaled a crew of caterers, cooks, maids, helicopter pilots, chauffeurs for VIPs, commercial plane pilots and swimming-pool attendants (for NBC's plastic pool built especially to revive numbed delegates and newsmen). Betty Furness gets a whole new kitchen this year...
...rules to be followed, conditions to be filled, investigations to be made. It was not his fault, one CARE official pointed out, that some 3,500 fishermen failed to qualify for a certain consignment of food packages. "These fishermen," said a priest working for a Roman Catholic charity, "waited six years before deciding things weren't so good in Red China. We have a lot of refugees who decided much earlier. Naturally they deserve consideration first." As these organizations pondered, the Reds peppered the fishermen with. letters: "Since you went away, the government has reviewed the case and discovered...