Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbus' statistics should cause people to be alarmed for the well-being of the animals: 12,000 dead animals collected from the city streets and 28,000 animals destroyed in one year because no one wanted them. With health and police costs added, it is no wonder that city halls are greatly concerned about fostering greater owner concern and responsibility. In this seemingly throwaway society, pets must not continue to be a temporary toy and whim that is cast out on the streets when people exhaust the initial novelty...
...Hunt moved into the big leagues; he struck a hard bargain with legendary Wildcatter Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, an amiable man with a poor head for figures, and gained control of a vast newly discovered oilfield in East Texas. From then on Hunt expanded his business interests to include pecan growing, asphalt production and H.L.H. products, which marketed a big line of food items. At one point it was estimated that he personally earned $1 million a week...
...Union will reduce its annual purchases of coal by 1 million tons. Similarly, the Coors brewery near Denver, a Georgia-Pacific plant in Toledo, Ore., and several other companies are also creating power by burning garbage in furnaces. Further variations on this basic formula are being planned in Chicago, Columbus, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C., among other cities...
...words. It doesn't really matter: I have a Newfie friend (from Newfoundland) who can say "Laird sufferin' Jesus" in so many ways that it provides specific judgment on everything from a collapsing derrick to a pretty girl at lunchtime. And I stayed on top of the Knights of Columbus building one afternoon after the work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only as a loquacious idiot, stood for half an hour stock...
...Goodbye, Columbus, Friday and Saturday...