Word: ches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another successful manufacturer is Wynn Oil Co., which promotes three oil additives, including "Charge!" The company was founded in 1939 by Ches-tien Wynn, a lawyer who mixed a homebrew "friction proofing" in a 55-gal. drum and sold bottles of it to local garages. Sales last year were $14 million. The Bardahl Mfg. Corp. markets 18 products in 82 countries. Its private owners do not disclose sales figures, but the company is probably third in size, behind STP and Wynn...
...coolly commercial, there is a school which argues that perhaps Christ should indeed be taken out of Christmas-or at least out of the stores. These critics are less offended by totally secular displays than they are by the sanctimonious or hyprocritical use of religious ones-crèches in store windows, a Madonna presiding over the liquor-and-gift-basket department. In the U.S.'s mixed society, "the emphasis is to bypass our differences and get away from the controversy of Christmas," says Professor Dan Dodson, chairman of the sociology department at New York University...
...bustle through town buying things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what tourists want...
...SINGLE DAY! Accounting was ignored as a "headache that stands in the way of production." Women were freed from the "drudgery" of housework only to labor 18 hours a day in field and factory. Old folks were shut away in "happiness homes," babies in state-run crèches. In the nurseries. Chinese moppets sang...
...after two games in which he led the scoring even though he didn't start, rauss was in the line-up for good. Consistently facing opponents three to five ches taller, he still managed to score close to 20 points a game and grab a large are of the rebounds. The big question is whether he will be able to perform such ats against experienced varsity competition...