Word: cols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That factor and the Defense Department order to cut back the non-flying enrollment are undoubtedly the unfortunate reasons that are scaring the freshmen away this year," said Col. Frank P. Bostrom, professor of Air Science...
High in the French Alps, thunder clouds roiled over the Col d'lzoard. Peering at the sky, the citizens of Briancon were worried. Cyclists of the Tour de France were pumping east from Grenoble on the 18th lap of their 25-day marathon, and rain could easily wash out the slim time advantage held by French Favorite Louison Bobet, 29. His rival, Swiss Champion Ferdi Rubier, 35, was an old hand at the hazards of mountain bicycle riding. A wet road might bother Bobet; Kubler might gain an unbeatable lead...
Then the clouds lifted. The slopes of the Col glared white and dusty under the sun. Pedaling furiously as the road twisted above the timber line, Bobet broke away from the pack. Rump high and nose to the handlebars, he zipped down dangerous Alpine switchbacks at better than 40 m.p.h. and sprinted into Briangon ahead of a demoralized Rubier. Briangon and all of France breathed again. With only five laps and five days of racing left, Bobet seemed to be a winner...
Some Southern stores are also beginning to pull down the barriers, e.g., quietly passing the word that from now on Negroes are to be addressed as "Mr." and "Mrs." One Birmingham store has abandoned the practice of tagging "col" on charge-a-plates. In Dallas Negro women are now permitted to try on hats and dresses...
...sell oats for future delivery in the expectation that prices would drop. At one time, said CEA, Cargill was short as much as 31.5 million bushels (24% of the 1951 crop), though regulations permit maximum contracts of only 3,000,000 bushels. At the same time, Cargill Grain Col, Ltd., a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, was buying oats futures on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and contracting to sell the oats to the parent company in the U.S. Cargill, charged CEA, falsified its books by listing these contracts as cash purchases in order to balance them off against the excessive short...