Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just let go of the plane and suddenly you've changed elements. You start to drop but you don't feel anything-only a marvelous sense of control. It's like being immersed in light water. Then you bring your right arm up and you make a turn, just as simple as that. It's an incredible sensation...
...conclusions are calculatedly sober. Dr. Bowen's figures show that seeding by airplane achieved approximately 20% increase in the amount of rain that fell on the test region. For $225,000 a year, he estimates, he can drop extra rain worth $2,200,000 on a hydroelectric watershed...
...week strike in some of its oxygen-producing plants. Continental Can Co. said it had anticipated a 5% first-half earnings decline because of stockpile buying in anticipation of a steel strike and the early maturing of some crops. General Foods Corp. suffered a profit slump because of a drop in the price of coffee and frozen foods...
...Snout. Beneath the farcical, Playwright Behan's point is as serious as that of Polemicist Koestler, and even before the action builds to its sickening offstage climax with the drop of the trap and "the screeches and roars of them" in the rest of the prison, it is apparent that playwright and polemicist agree. The prisoners laugh at their keepers, at themselves, even at the Quare Fellow's predicament. In this way, Brendan Behan laughs at the society that thinks that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly...
...usual, there were some minuses scattered among the plus signs. The slumping U.S. paper industry, beset by a drop in demand and steadily rising costs, reported uniformly lower earnings. International Paper Co. dipped from $21.4 million in 1956's second quarter to about $16.5 million in the same period this year; Brown Co. and Mead Corp. were down 5% and 10% respectively. Devoe & Raynolds Co., Air Reduction Corp. and Grace (W.R.) & Co. reported that first-half earnings were lower than last year's levels...