Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life Mrs. Garfein) who goes skipping through a New York City park alone after dark. When she comes to, she tidies her clothes, staggers home, sneaks upstairs past her prudish parent (Mildred Dunnock). In a meticulous ritual of hysteria, she cuts up her torn clothes, flushes them down the drain, pops into bed as if nothing had happened, as if out of sight were really out of mind...
...come soon enough. The country's foreign exchange reserves, which were at a peak of $36,600,000 before sanctions were imposed last year, are down to a rock-bottom $3,800,000, and its gold stocks stand at a minuscule $3,000,000. Much of the money drain is the effect of the sanctions, but the departing Trujillo clan looted the remainder. The continuing civil strife has choked off investment; industry and commerce are hard hit, and at latest count fully one-half of the tiny republic's 2,900,000 people are out of work...
...This investment in Europe-which in 1961 alone will total $700 million-has paid the U.S. rich dividends in the form of repatriated profits. But unless it is accompanied by a substantial increase in U.S. exports, a continued surge in U.S. investment in Europe could add dangerously to the drain on U.S. gold stocks, now down to a 22-year low of less than $17 billion...
...this takes about seven seconds. After that, the lower brewing cup dumps its grounds down a chute into the household sewerage drain, is swished clean by a jet of hot water, then swings up and around to the top, while the brewing cup containing the freshly used grounds swings down to take its place. The double brewing action, says Havajava President George C. Lane, provides good coffee flavor. "We've found there is no difference in the taste even when the grounds have been in the cup for 48 hours. If you haven't made...
Designed for home use (and no coins). Coffee Butler will provide roughly 100 cups of freshly brewed coffee in one filling without fuss or muss. List price: $249.50, plus $25-$30 for connections to water line and drain...