Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Executive Director Frederick Bell of the National Auto Dealers asked Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin to join him in asking Congress to restore the old wartime Regulation W, which until 1952 required 1/3 down payment for autos, no more than 18 months to pay the balance. Martin was cool to the idea, but Bell wants the Government to slap on such controls again...
...simple line. At 13, he left school for the kitchen of his uncle's restaurant in Nice. He learned the hard way, but fast-uninterrupted even by the Franco-Prussian War, when, as an army chef, he learned how to cook a horse (scald the meat and cool before cooking, to kill the bitter taste). After the war he perfected his style and fatefully met Hotelman Cesar Ritz. At Ritz-managed hotels (Monte Carlo's Grand, London's Savoy and Carlton, Paris' Ritz), Escoffier cooked his way to fame...
...general, they smelled a tornado when a layer of warm, moist air was covered by a layer of cool, dry air. The wind had to be strong and in the right direction, and the warm air at the surface had to be subject to a strong lifting action. When these conditions (and more subtle ones) coincided, a tornado was likely to lick out from the black center of a cloud...
...house in Vallauris. At La Californie, Picasso has ripped out the connecting doors of the ground floor to make one huge studio. Pottery, sculptures, driftwood, rocks, paints, canvases, primitive idols, bottles and plain junk heaped here and there like the accidental deposit of a flood make the high, cool rooms seem homey to Picasso, who has much of Proteus about him. The only furniture thus far installed consists of some work tables, a few straight chairs and a rocking chair in which he reads his morning paper...
Perfect administration insured the successful assault on Essex, Magnolia Beach, and the Manchester Yacht Club. The fleet of buses and its motorcycle escort fled from Cambridge shortly after 9 a.m., carrying picnickers not mobilized in cars. All day, low murky clouds and cool breezes threatened to bring rain, but fortunately the spirits remained high and not dampened...