Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb. But he also made many important enemies within the Democratic Party, especially among Southerners and big-city bosses. They prevailed on Roosevelt in 1944 to let the convention drop Wallace in favor of Harry...
...fourth largest aluminum producer (it was the first to raise aluminum prices, last to back down), its sixth largest chemical company and its leading manufacturer of cigarette paper. Though the company is principally a supplier to other industries, its other two divisions-Squibb drugs and Winchester-Western sporting guns-produced a third of its sales last year. All of the divisions are busy on several continents. Olin has just opened a caustic soda plant in Georgia and a sporting ammunition plant in Italy, is building a biological research laboratory in New Jersey, a plywood plant (its first) in Louisiana...
Cold war politics today make some boycotts impractical or ineffective. Placed under sanctions by Russia, Yugoslavia received aid from the West; Cuba, in the face of U.S. sanctions, got help from the East. Red China has been able to buy from Western nations despite a U.S. embargo. The Israeli-Arab standoff is a joke, since neither has markets to interest the other, and both sides in the cold war trade with each country. Indeed, the only really successful postwar sanction was the 28-day naval blockade that the U.S. threw around Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. It was totally...
Instead they moved the party to an apartment on Western Ave. There his condition became worse, and he attracted considerable attention from neighbors. He was finally subdued with the aid of several people and taken to the University Health Services in a strait jacket. But Stillman Infirmary was unable to accept him as a patient in his condition and rushed him to the Boston facility...
...phrases like, "the wind rode by." ("Wind doesn't ride, for god's sake," says the spoilsport, "it BLOWS.") But Wolfe's dedication to the minute is real enough, and extremely articulate. He is fascinated by California where the Free-way has broken up the quantitative thought patterns of Western Civilization by forcing men to measure distance by time rather than miles. He chronicles every strange twist and turn of a fully motorized America and its departure--since World War II--from a basically land-oriented state of mind, which he can persuasively argue was vestigial feudalism, to a totally...