Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden drawing room, the Suez group was in full cry. Nearly 40 Tory M.P.s sent a statement to Butler warning against any further softening of Britain's position. Conservative Angus Maude declared: "If we emerge humiliated, forced to crawl to the Americans for every drop of oil while Nasser triumphs on the Suez Canal, then there is no place for me or for scores of my colleagues in the Tory Party under its present leaders." Bluntly, he warned Butler against abandoning "our bargaining strength in return for American oil and dollars," adding that Butler "knows very well that...
...simply a camouflage for the ambitions of the big powers." In Germany, Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung conceded: "One must state with astonishment that the U.N. is stronger than it seemed." Even New York's xenophobic Daily News (which usually wishes that its 42nd Street neighbor would drop dead) credited Dag Hammarskjold's "diplomatic menagerie" with "quite an achievement...
...majority of distributions are made through public channels, and are, in effect, competition for local grocers. Small grocers, fighting to survive the inroads of chain stores and supermarkets, have already felt the press of the Government's burgeoning program. Wholesale grocery sales in Arkansas have dropped about 14%, and grocers blame at least half the drop on the surplus-disposal program. "We think the free groceries have cut into business." says W. Earl Fitzgerald, executive secretary of Michigan's Food Industry Committee, "but we distribute them as a civic gesture...
...into the company of the TV giants (Philco, Admiral and RCA), now claims to be the nation's No. 1 radio-manufacturer. At the end of 1956's first nine months. Motorola turned in earnings of $4.8 million, only 2% below the 1955 period v. a 49% drop for Admiral, a 65% drop for Philco. The busily diversifying company (transistors, Chrysler's pushbutton gear shift) is currently spending $8 million yearly developing new products...
...sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...