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...Friendly Motorist. Near Clifton, N.J., when another car forced his auto off the road, Ernest Bale, 19, walked over to the offending driver, who slowly raised a small chemical fire extinguisher, squirted Bale in the face, and drove off without a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Wenzinger comes from the Schola Cantorum of Bale. Switzerland which he helped to found several years age. He is at present sole cellist for the Hale Symphony Orchestra and also heads a concert group of faculty members at Sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swiss Cellist to Lecture for Spring Term: Wenzinger Will Teach Music History Course | 2/4/1953 | See Source »

...price of cotton plummeted on the Cotton Exchange last week, dropping $4.00 a bale in one day. Reason: the U.S. Department of Agriculture had just predicted a 14,413,000-bale crop this year, or 524,000 bales above the estimate a month ago. Cotton, which had been selling at 45? a pound less than two years ago, when it was short, was down to about 37½?, five cents above the support level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Commodities Going Down | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...most threatening insect pest of American cotton," is doing more damage "to the 1952 cotton crop . . . than its total damage in the last 35 years." Jolted by the news, cotton traders in New York and elsewhere began buying heavily, quickly pushed cotton futures up as much as $2.50 a bale. But when newsmen tried to get some more facts on the crop damage a few hours later, faces at the Agriculture Department were as pink as a bollworm. There are no figures, said Agriculture officials, on either past or present pink-bollworm damage. What the release should have said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Pink as a Bollworm | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...troubles of WSB are nothing compared to those of OPS. Last week there was a rash of new price boosts-aluminum up 1? a lb., Kaiser-Frazer cars $54 apiece, cotton $5 a bale, manganese $40 a ton (which will boost the cost of making steel an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Hot-Air War | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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