Word: coastered
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...hope you'll forgive me for being personal, but I feel you're my friends and its all right to talk personally to your friends. it hasn't always been so good. I'm not ashamed to say that George and I used to pull a coaster-wagon to get relief groceries in the depression...Nowadays at home when I see so many good things to cat, I finish everything on the table." A gray-haired women sighed and cooed, "Just like...
...Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama's real test would come when Syria's kaffiyeh-topped shepherds and camel drivers start thronging into...
Says Schulman: "On that week-long missionary jaunt, when the sea got rough and the craft started to heave and roll through the reefs like a Coney Island roller coaster, the Gospel-quoting skipper began to sing My Heart Is Full of Joy. I joined in-the best seasickness preventive yet." Faced with one fast-breaking story after another, the Schulmans spent Christmas in their hotel, finally moved into a house on the first of the year. But since then the house has seen little of Schulman...
...grain, cotton and other commodity men have had a neat device to hedge themselves against violent ups and downs in prices. It is the futures market, in which they can buy and sell commodities for delivery months in advance. Last week dealers in two other products subject to roller-coaster price swings were busy setting up futures markets of their own. In Florida citrus men laid plans for a futures market in booming citrus concentrates, whose prices fluctuate as much as 60% in a season. In Chicago a futures market in scrap iron and steel will open late this summer...
...summer of 1952, the Communists completed the first new line on the way to Russia, a 314-mile stretch between Chungking and Chengtu (see map). That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest." The Communists are now at work on at least twelve more strategic railroads, more than 4,000 miles long, which will join Russia's Asian network in at least two places. Among them...