Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Consumers Union, which eventually outdistanced Consumers Research to become the best-known tester of consumer products in the U.S. Paying himself a starting salary of $10 a week, Kallet and five technicians issued monthly Consumer Reports, advised readers how to save money on everything from tooth paste (use precipitated chalk) to fly spray (mix pyrethrum powder and kerosene). By this year 900,000 subscribers were paying $5 a year for the reports, and the Union had 75 part-time shoppers in 50 cities, a headquarters staff of 175, an automobile laboratory in Connecticut, a textile laboratory in Massachusetts...
...usually Critic Brown who is the first to cry Fowler. Both quick-witted, the two men also strike sparks with contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women's clubs, is a courtly Kentuckian with effortless charm...
...chalk players figured, only bad luck could beat Sir Victor Sassoon's swift colt Crepello in the 178th running of Britain's Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs. And for a change, a short-priced (6 to 4) Derby favorite got the breaks. After loafing along in the pack, Crepello found the right opening in the last quarter-mile, moved up with ease and won by a widening length and a half from Ballymoss...
...stands at four wins and three losses, will wrestle Dave Moulton at 123. Striker will seek his fourth win as against two losses, when he meets George McLaughlin at 130. Crook, at 137, suffered only his second defeat of the season against Springfield, but should be hard-pressed to chalk up his fifth win against the Tiger's Curt Dohan...
Capitalizing on three pins, a forfeit, and a decision, the varsity wrestlers downed Amherst 2 to 11, at Amherst Saturday afternoon he chalk up their third win against one loss...