Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems more resigned to its lot, and even grateful for the orderliness that keeps warlords from swooping down on farmers to steal their harvests. But in a nation that has only a paper-thin economic surplus to invest in industrial growth, a loss of mass enthusiasm and a consequent drop in production could be no less deadly than active popular resistance...
...show as originally written was just another pastiche of obvious jokes, carefully planted "ad libs" and situations more ridiculous than riotous. Then Writer Sherwood Schwartz had a radical notion: drop the dialogue entirely. Comedian Red Skelton, who has hankered for years to work in pantomime, leaped at the idea...
...farm, the outlook was not so good. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made...
Super-Glue. Eastman Chemical Products, a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co., has developed a new adhesive that will glue together almost any combination of substances, e.g., wood and steel, is so strong that a single drop can support a 5,000-lb. car on a rig. Unaffected by heat or cold, the Eastman 910 Adhesive sets rapidly without additives or heating...
...Want to Live! (Figaro; United Artists). "When you hear the pellets drop," says the kindly guard to the beautiful doll as he buckles her into the cyanide chamber, "take a deep breath and count ten. It's easier that way." The beautiful doll only flings him a sardonic question: "How do you know?" Barbara Graham (Susan Hay ward), according to this skillful screen version of the life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found...