Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Municipal Administration Building in Düsseldorf, West Germany, taxpayers have at last found a spokesman in 35-year-old Sculptor Max Kratz. Asked to design two door handles for the main doors through which Düsseldorf's Rhinelanders must pass to pay such local levies as dog taxes, school taxes and licensing fees, Sculptor Kratz "felt an irresistible urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand that for centuries taxes have been collected, and there really is no use resisting...
...LIFE in many cities last week found that the magazines had sold out shortly after reaching newsstands. Chief reason: both magazines carried a two-page Swift & Co. ad containing twelve coupons, each of which was good for a 10? or 15? discount on Swift meat products ranging from dog food to frankfurters. Grocers, tipped off by Swift's six-page advance ads in trade magazines, bustled to buy LIFE and Look. They figured that they could turn a Swift profit, since the coupons alone in each 15? Look and 20? LIFE were worth $1.45, plus a 24? redemption bonus...
Maketh Not Summer. In Billings, Mont., acquitting Mrs. Antonia Romero on a charge of harboring a vicious dog after testimony from Mailman Theodore Foos that her pooch had nibbled his thigh, Judge Otis Packwood observed: "This is another case of every dog being entitled to one bite...
White said that "Massachusetts is the laughing stock of the more enlightened states, because we have to fight to obtain experimental animals. Which is more important," he asked, "a beloved child in our community or a stray dog or cat about to be killed." The proposed bill would enable research institutions to obtain for experimental purposes stray dogs and cats which are doomed to die in pounds...
...another thing, the CRIMSON has tested Utility and found it is perfectly good. You know we found a dog the other day, or rather he found us. Anyway, we tried some utility meat...