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...Electric Chair. Often he walked down the hall to Mamie's room to chat and pace the room for exercise while she breakfasted or lunched. His own meals were hearty ones: steak, prime ribs of beef, roast partridge. Attendants brought his lunch to Mamie's room one day, his breakfast the next. He was allowed to roam about whenever he wanted to on the hospital's eighth floor, permitted out of bed any time except during his two-hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent...
...effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True When You Say I Love You), and Hubert Humphrey himself introduced Candidate Stevenson as "the very...
Devaluation automatically raised the cost of imports; that was where Lonardi's proposed austerity came in. To smooth the transition and hold down inflation, the government for the time being planned to tax the more profitable exports, e.g., beef, and use the tax to subsidize the more vital imports, e.g., penicillin...
...switching to tabloid form and a broader news policy in an attempt to regain circulation (the Courier has plummeted to a little more than half its 1948 peak of 358,000). While some Negro publishers still make a fat living, they generally lack capital to modernize plants and beef up skimpy staffs...
...flights across the U.S., figuring speed, payload, turn-around time, maintenance costs, etc., to give Patterson the information he needed. He chose Douglas' DC-8 over Boeing's 707 because he feels that it has more room for improvement, the same big stretch that permitted Douglas to beef up its DC-4 into the DC-6 and DC-7. Even so, the first models will have plenty of speed for U.S. air travelers. Carrying 112 to 140 passengers United's swept-wing DC-8s will cross the U.S. nonstop at altitudes...