Word: clover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collapsing?" So asks a press release issued by a Connecticut abrasives manufacturer named Edward B. Gallaher. The loaded questions are part of an open letter from Gallaher to Ike Campaigner Jim Duff. The "letter" will be published, says the press release, in the June issue of Gallaher's Clover Business Letter ("some 300,000 subscribers...
...scientists went to work again. Recently they found that lack of zinc in the soil was what sickened the plants. Some crops needed copper too. So the scientists added small amounts of the two elements to test plots, which responded at once with good crops of oats, clover and alfalfa...
...took over when its first-mortgage bonds were selling below 30, its common stock at $7. Nickel Plate bonds which replaced the old issue are now around 90, its common stock had sold above $200 before it was split 5 for 1. With MoPac, said Young, he could "make clover" in the same...
...typical Maxwell performance one night last week began with a fast, explosive samba, went on to a sentimental arrangement of Kurt Weill's September Song and a plunky version of I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. The final numbers: a medley of Gershwin tunes and a swing arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Says Maxwell: "I play Liszt as I think Liszt would play if he were alive today." The supper-club crowd hushed down to devoted silence for Maxwell's 20-minute performance, even when their glasses stood empty...
...smile . . . and her complete lack of affectation have won everybody." Back home the New York World-Telegram and Sun agreed: "After some of the dames who've represented American womanhood in Europe's salons and saloons, she must be like a breath of air straight from the clover patch . . . We do not want Europeans to think all our women do is go around marrying Moslem princes and staging big maternity exhibitions, like Rita [Hayworth] did. Nor do we wish our dolls generally to get a reputation for flirting with bullfighters, as Ava [Gardner...