Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in Hollywood, his movie career had tobogganed to the point where he was playing second lead to a talking mule in the Francis pictures. But after one guest appearance on TV with Jimmy Durante, Donald was signed as one of the rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such top-budget musicals as Singin' in the Rain and Call Me Madam...
Vanishing Cream. For workers whose skins are sensitive to industrial materials and housewives who are allergic to soaps or detergents, Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Ill. brought out a greaseless protective'skin cream, Covicone, that will not wash off. The cream has a nitrocellulose base, does not clog pores and permits perspiration. When applied twice daily for two weeks, an application every one or two days thereafter maintains the protection. Price: 90? for a 1-oz. tube...
...with seven consecutive annual budget surpluses fattening the treasury and national production daily setting new records, last week declared a dividend for all citizens: an across-the-board tax cut in 1953-54. In his annual budget message to a cheering House of Commons in Ottawa, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott rolled the country's tax rates back toward pre-Korea levels. Abbott announced...
Besides the tax cuts, the budget told other good news about the Canadian economy. The value of the gross national product jumped 7% last year; wages and incomes went up 12%. At the same time, prices dropped, personal savings increased, and inflation appeared to be checked. Said Abbott: "Those who argued in 1950 that we were in for a siege of indefinite inflation have been just as wrong as the pessimists who since the end of the war have been persistently predicting a new depression...
...Douglas Abbott...