Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers and their elders, are a staggering problem for the U.N. So far the U.N.'s Civil Assistance Command-meaning, mostly, U.S. Army G-4-has prevented starvation in South Korea. Since war began, the Army has shipped in 100,000 tons of grain, millions of yards of cloth, 3,000 tons of clothing. Soup kitchens, emergency refugee camps, orphanages have been set up in the South. In North Korea, things are worse...
...picnickers who want to know just what they are getting in for, two University of Tennessee graduate students gave some statistical hints from their study of the local bug populations. Every sandwich dropped on their leafy hillside will fall on an average of 102 bugs; a picnic cloth will cover 14,745. Estimated population per acre: more than 40 million chiggers, ants, .spiders, beetles, leaf hoppers, pill bugs, flies, bees, wasps and moths...
Novelist James (Lost Horizon) Hilton let Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in on a well-kept secret-the origin of his famous Shangri-La. "La means 'mountain pass' in the language of Tibet, but the Shangri was my own idea . . . made it up out of whole cloth because it sounded so Tibetan, you see. Later on, a Far Eastern scholar wrote and told me that Shangri means 'secret' in Tibetan, so there you have it ... Rather surprising, what...
Drum Beater. U.S. Rubber Co. brought out a collapsible cloth and rubber drum for shipping petroleum, acid and other liquids. Flexible and light (28 lbs., v. 40 to 60 lbs. for the same size steel drum), the drums, when empty, can be shipped back cheaply to the supplier. More than 2,500 folded drums can be shipped in a freight car that can hold only 300 steel containers of the same size...
...Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department of Justice employee, another said his came from a South Korean soldier...