Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffering from hypertension, a weak heart, a polyp in his digestive tract, asthma, and Allah knows what else. When eleven doctors converged at his bedside, things looked, from the outside at least, pretty grim. It turned out that Saud was complaining about his liver (his own remedy: banana puree in Chantilly cream with five scoops of ice cream for breakfast), and his blood, for which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors are there," he said, "not because the King is very, very sick...
...just $167. From 1956 through 1961, the country's gross national product inched ahead at a painfully slow 1% a year. During the Arosemena administration, it jumped to 2.5%, still less than the annual population increase of 2.8%, but at least a move in the right direction. Banana ex ports last year reached a record high of 34.5 million stems, and, thanks partly to Arosemena's austerity program, unfavorable balances of trade in 1960 and 1961 were reversed: 1962 exports climbed to $136.6 million; imports fell to $97.8 million. International monetary reserves, which had slipped to a risky...
...wore toupees were once as few and far between as the strands of their own hair. To the wearer it was all a matter of secrecy and shame, and to onlookers a cause for thunderous hilarity; the next best thing to seeing a man slip on a banana peel was watching the wind lift the wig off his glittering skull. Neither disgraceful nor comic any more, toupees are big business in the U.S. today. They are worn not only by matinee idols whose afternoons are fast fading into dusk, but also by many a man who lost his comb...
...faced layoffs; on the East Coast refined sugar prices were about to be raised to a 40-yr. high of $10 per 100 lbs. The United Fruit Co., whose great white fleet is a major prop of more than one Latin American economy, managed to get some of its banana ships unloaded under court order. Even so, bananas began to run short in neighborhood markets, and housewives who succeeded in finding some paid 23? a lb. v. the pre-strike 17?. Crude rubber prices shot up as much as 10%, and Eastern carpet factories, cut off from the jute they...
...Bertram A. Powers, have attracted the most public attention. Powers wants to get to the top of the international union; there is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it is no excuse for prolonging a strike. Local Six, for its part, wants to regain its position as top banana among newspaper unions. The I.T.U.'s former position of leadership is now occupied by the Newspaper Guild, and one way to regain that leadership, Powers reasons, is to win a sensational and unpopular strike...