Word: braceleted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signifies that Ike is a corporal in the crack Algerian Spahis of the French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
Buried Treasure. In Paris, police arrested Thief Roger Lhomel, shipped him off to the hospital when he announced that he had swallowed his loot: a gold bracelet, a wedding ring, a gold watch band, a religious medal, a three-inch wooden crucifix...
...kitchen-loving housewife, Dallas' Linz Bros, displayed a bracelet bangle in the form of a 14-carat gold sink with tiny diamonds streaming from the faucets. Price: $200. Another Linz offering: a man's pocket watch, which tells the day of the week, phase of the moon, date of the month and year, and strikes the quarter hours in pretty chimes...
Later, at a solo press conference, he was more expansive. Waving his left hand, which flashed with a diamond bracelet containing 812 diamonds, he announced that before the end of the 20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...
...Administration's drive for freer trade last week got another small, but helpful, shove forward. The United States Tariff Commission turned down a request by the Watch Attachment Manufacturers Association for higher import duties on foreign-made metal watch bracelets. The association argued that the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Extension Act should be invoked because increased imports of cheap foreign bracelets had seriously cut into the sales of U.S. producers. (Foreign bracelets made up 20% of sales last year v. 0.7% in 1947). The commission threw some statistics back at the U.S. bracelet makers. Total sales...