Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double or Bust. The program, although Government-directed, was made possible only with the cooperation of 1,000 companies. They have lent nearly $900,000 worth of products, sent top executives off to teach businessmen overseas how to sell to the U.S. Reflecting support from all segments of the economy, the U.S. next month at New Delhi will show the biggest atoms-for-peace exhibit ever assembled, in November will spread a model farm over 175 acres outside Addis Ababa...
...anniversary of the dramatic morning on which President Getulio Vargas, confronted with a military demand for his resignation, put a pistol to his heart and committed suicide. With parades and mass meetings banned by the police, the day was quiet. The mourners who gathered around the flower-ringed bronze bust of Vargas in Rio's Florian Square seemed subdued and voiceless...
...denying stoutly that it would try to compete in kind with NBC's loudly publicized Spectaculars. This fall CBS will flood the TV screen with at least ten 90-minute Spectacular-type shows. Coming soon (check your local newspaper for time and station): Fort Knox or Bust...
...Last week Christian Dior was talking up his newest alphabetical sensation-the Y-line-and hoped it would do better than last year's H-line, which deflated the bosom and was in turn a bust at the box office. Proclaimed Dior: "I have emphasized the bosom. My shoulders are full and rounded, the real shoulders of a happy woman. I am enchanted that a movement in favor of big hats is under way. They bring back dignity to the little faces coiffed in mad-dog style." This was Paris in the dog days...
Although the big farms are now mechanized and comparatively prosperous, they are still so dependent upon a decent rainfall that farming in North Dakota is rated by its governor to be a boom-and-bust proposition: between 1919 and 1952 the state's wheat production fluctuated between the extraordinary extremes of 19 and 160 million bushels a year. Since 1930, the population of the state has declined from 680,000 to 620,000-the biggest percentage drop in all the 48 states...