Word: trimmers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bill, $590.5 million below Administration requests, but a surprising $200 million above the $3.38 billion package backed by House Speaker Sam Rayburn-thanks to a rare combination of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats engineered by Minority Leader Charlie Halleck. New York's Old Guard John Taber, longtime aid trimmer, led the disciplined Republican ranks in bidding for $200 million more for military assistance (total: $1.8 billion), which the Democrats supported. In return, Halleck & Co. voted to restore U.S. aid ($515 million over ten years) to the Indus River project for India and Pakistan, a favorite liberal cause...
Young "Red" Gray worshiped his father and followed in his steps. In 1918, at the age of eleven, he went to work as a leaf trimmer for Reynolds during summer vacations. (Another Reynolds employee, though less interested in it as a career: Bowman's younger brother, Gordon Gray, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary, former president of the University of North Carolina and now national security adviser to President Eisenhower.) At Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Bo Gray persuaded fellow students to smoke Prince Albert after he discovered that cigarettes were forbidden. After graduating from Chapel Hill ('29) he went to work...
...years after the Great Potato Famine, a dozen tight-knit Irish families-the McDonoughs, the Sullivans, the Cosgroves, the Flahertys-emigrated to New York, where they did very well for themselves in a unique trade demanding great skill and courage. The menfolk became "grain trimmers," i.e., longshoremen who, using shovels and wooden scoops, level out grain after it is poured or blown into the holds of ships. It is a difficult trade because the grain raises huge clouds of choking dust, and dangerous because the dust has been known to explode. It is also well paid. On the docks...