Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile, roughly equal to the vehicle's operating cost. On balance, however, the motorist saves big sums in reduced operating and accident costs, saved time and lessened strain. The road-building money is extracted from the motorist himself, in taxes on fuel, tires, accessories and truck weight. In the Interstate system, which is supposed to cost $46.8 billion by the time it is finished in 1972, the Federal Government pays 90% of the cost and the local governments chip in 10%. Once the road is built, local taxes must pay the whole tab for maintenance-and this year maintaining...
Things got no better with age. Whatever he did offended somebody. On breadlines he asked for toast. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar. To lose weight he started eating saccharin-and got artificial diabetes. He fell in love with a promiscuous girl, so promiscuous she became a hostess in an alley...
...lady reporter all but accused the President of violating the Constitution by vetoing the military construction bill, L.B.J. remained monumentally patient. Savoring every last chuckle from the press, Johnson drawled: "I would refer you to the Attorney Genera]-and I know he would be glad to give great weight to any observations you might have...
Despite bans on "misleading and disparaging" ads and a policy of refusing to break up nationally originated programs, Ireland's Telefis Eireann doubled advertising revenues in two years to $5,300,000. Finland, which bars liquor and weight-reducing ads, doubled its ad revenues to more than $7,000,000 in the same time. Although it limits ads to ten minutes a night, France managed to sell $5,000,000 in commercials last year. Switzerland, which allowed its first commercial only six months ago, has been forced to ration time among more than 170 clamoring firms, expects to reap...
...knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed it into his hip and started for the setting sun." Somewhere west of Jacksboro, Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night with the stampeding herd and even swimming the notorious Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that to sink is a gone fawn skin") with his bunch of cattle. The work was hard, McCauley recalls, but the company was cheerful. After a rugged...