Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MAIL-ORDER PRICES in this fall's Sears, Roebuck catalogue will be 1% below last season's, a reversal of inflationary trend. Montgomery Ward prices for automatic washers, dryers will drop 4% to 12% below current level...
...water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors to complete the morning treatment. The afternoon brings more of the same. Specialties elsewhere: bath and poultice, shower in a hammock, intestinal irrigation "drop by drop...
Last week the Federal Reserve reported that industrial production fell in May for the third straight month. Stocks suffered their biggest fall in five months, ended the week at 500, off eleven points on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Latest figures show a drop in new orders for durable goods and in average weekly hours worked in manufacturing...
...biggest oil-production cut in Texas history, the Texas Railroad Commission last week slashed allowable output for July to 13 days, a drop of 384,631 bbl. a day. The state's independent producers seized on the record cut as an opportunity to dramatize the plight of the domestic oil industry, hard pressed by record imports from abroad and steadily mounting crude oil stocks. Four associations of independents fired off telegrams to Washington blaming the production cut on imports, warning that foreign oil is replacing domestic...
...daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption...