Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January Harper's, George Henry, principal of a 350-student high school in Dover, Del., contends that a third of all high-school students can't read or write well enough to learn much of anything from textbooks. What's more, he adds gloomily, they never will be able to. Says...
...record was made almost by accident. The owner of the Lazy D.W.A. ("Gus") Delaney, 51, millionaire oilman (he made a reported $5,000,000 in the Fitts oil pool), had not intended to sell Del Zento. He changed his mind when he heard that there were three hot bidders on his ranch...
First in the ring was a deep cherry-red bull named Del Zento I. Rodanz had already "measured him from rump to brisket, decided he wanted to take him home. So did two other well-heeled buyers...
...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
...little markets. Typical was the "Hollywood Pin-Up," an aluminum clothespin. Its inventors were two neighbors in Van Nuys, Calif., who got tired of hearing their wives grumble about ersatz clothespins. Alcoa helped them perfect the pin, licensed them to use its color process, "Alumilite," at a nominal royalty. Del E. Webb, contractor and co-owner of the New York Yankees, financed them. Last week, the Del E. Webb Products Co. was busy shipping out 80,000 pins a day, expects to use 2,500,000 pounds of aluminum a year...