Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...South Carolina the voter has had to make his choice in full public view. Each party had its own ballot, and the voter picked up the one he wanted from the Republican or Democratic stack on an open table. Last week Governor J. Strom Thurmond signed a bill giving South Carolina voters for the first time a privilege that citizens of the other 47 states have long enjoyed-a single, secret ballot...
...statisticians had discovered was that the cost to Chrysler for such pensions would be less per man per hour than the cost to Ford, because Ford workers are generally older and have had more years of service. Even though he had got his trust fund, Reuther was determined to make Chrysler cough up 10? an hour, as Ford had. Reuther had his eye on the next company on the negotiation line -giant General Motors. He wanted to be able to go to G.M. with a record of having won maximum demands...
Turkey Spencer yielded to no man as an enemy of the fox. As a state representative, Turkey had beaten the hound-dog lobby, got a bill passed to make fox killing legal for the first time in 20 years. But Turkey was up for re-election ("Let's have Turkey in November"). He had nothing against the hound-dog boys personally, but the farmers had the votes. Turkey had read about a man in Brownwood named Adam L. Lindsey, who could call foxes with a cow horn. He sent...
...Martin Block's Make-Believe Ballroom, on which Disc Jockey Block presents new records, plays request numbers. Typical recent request from "Alex," a listener in Switzerland: play some bop. Block's grave answer: "Alex, did you know that bop is on its way out? . . .Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie has given up bop?" Block then played one of Gillespie's post-bop numbers entitled You Stole My Wife-You Horse Thief...
...talk about food in the U.S., by an Austrian woman who had married a G.I. She spoke lyrically of the cosmopolitan variety of the U.S. menu ("Goulash, Wiener Schnitzel, stuffed peppers, Linzer tart . . ."), and made an announcement that might start a major revolution in Vienna: "I frequently make Apfelstrudel, but I don't have to knead the dough myself-I buy it all ready. Or better still, I buy the whole Apfelstrudel...