Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Break Out to Bop. Russia has always been a musical nation, so it came as no surprise that the Russians played well. The stunner was how closely the Russians caught the sense of the music, particularly the sad throb of the blues. There were times, says Ruff, "when the renditions...
Double Entry. In Charles City, Iowa, the Press ran a classified ad: "I will not be responsible for any debts other than my own. Kenneth Wagner, Nashua"; next day ran a followup: "I've paid all his bills. There's none left to pay. Mrs. Kenneth Wagner."
Overtime. In Buffalo, fined $5 for illegal parking, Attorney Charles J. Grieb won a dismissal six months later when he submitted a 15-page brief complete with photographs, sketches and electronic tests proving that the meter was wrong-all at a cost of $110.
Pointing a finger at both sides, the report noted that rises in steel prices (up 178% since 1940) and wages (up 85% since 1950) have been much sharper than in other manufacturing, and that steel wages ($3.10 an hour) are far above the manufacturing average ($2.23). Furthermore, steel's...
Along a carnival-like half-mile of self-service counters and dashing pushcarts sat Tiki gods and aloha shirts, maki sushi and hibiscus plants. Through the aisles milled thousands of customers as varied and colorful as the more than 10,000 items stacked neatly on the shelves. They bore in...