Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record harvest, threats of food shortages keep popping up like hobgoblins at Halloween. New scarcities are now expected in such key items as canned goods and dairy products; even turkey will be in short supply for the holidays. More frustrating, because of snarls on overloaded U.S. railroads, the bumper yields will be tortuously slow in reaching markets, further tightening supplies and kicking up retail food prices, which have inflated 21.5% in the past year. Concedes Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "It's probable that we will see some larger food prices in the months ahead...
...woman came into the U.J.A. office to say that although her husband had given, she was donating her engagement ring. In Miami 92-year-old Mayshie Friedberg spent 100 hours during the week selling bonds. In Portland, Ore., children went out into the streets to hawk buttons and bumper stickers proclaiming: LET ISRAEL LIVE! In Boston some 50 donors a day offered blood to the Red Cross, even though no plea had been made. Said Herb Seplis, bloodmobile coordinator: "There are rivers of blood if Israel needs them...
...electricity came along to revolutionize the game. In 1935 pinball was introduced to the anti-tilt device and the solenoid-powered bumper units, essentials to the modern game. 1937 was a banner year as well, as the now defunct Western Electric and Supply company added the allure of free games. The final major invention to hit the pinball scene came as recently as 1947, when the late Harry Mas introduced the solenoid-activated power flipper...
Deadpan Images. Raffael's use of photos has created, in some quarters, the impression of an affinity with the much touted American "New Realism." Not so. The neorealist effort-air-brushed Volkswagen bumper bars, Los Angeles parking lots, horse postcards, the whole post-Pop iconography of deadpan images-is merely an absent-minded rumination on fact, painting reduced to bland, mechanical transliteration. The method precludes light and atmosphere, and silences all dialogue between brush-work and image. New Realism is the limp, ineloquent salon...
UNDEVELOP! -New Mexico billboard campaign MAINE IS NOT FOR SALE -Bumper sticker "Please come and visit us in Oregon again and again. But for heaven's sake don't come and live here." -Oregon Governor Tom McCall...