Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thou preparest pork barrel before me in the presence of the Republicans: thou hast annointed my old age with Social Security; my tax bill runneth over...
...microphones broad-shouldered, coatless, clutching a Bible in his left hand, stepped the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, claimant to the leadership of 6,000,000 Share-Our-Wealthers left him by the late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against his barrel chest as he swung into his harangue. No mild economic creed was his but a rousing call to arms. Too long, he shouted, had the plain people of the U. S. let Wall Street and Tammany rule them...
...picture of the Mississippi delegation to the Philadelphia Party (TIME, July 6) is amusing. But how could anyone accumulate so much fat in three years? Could it possibly have been grafted from a pork barrel...
...running two miles around a soggy cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, a lean, barrel-chested young man from Auburn, Ind. last week made himself the most talked about athlete in the U. S. The young man was Donald Ray Lash, 22-year-old junior at Indiana University. What made the feat remarkable was the time it took him to accomplish...
...poverty-stricken farmers in all 48 States, this boom meant undreamed of profits. A barrel of potatoes costs about $2 to grow, another 75?^ to dig, pack, ship. Prices were so low on the Eastern Shore last year that desperate farmers hijacked and destroyed truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...