Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson on specific points of his campaign and record. Candidate Eisenhower put in an eight-hour day filming 40 spot announcements on such subjects as taxes, corruption and peace. Sample: Housewife-"They say I've never had it so "good, yet I've had to stop buying eggs and everything expensive." Eisenhower-"No wonder. You actually pay 100 different taxes on just one egg. We must cut costs and taxes...
...first big decision as premier was to spend the province's cash surplus developing the island's resources. Otherwise, he warned, "Newfoundland will never enjoy more than a meager, peasant economy." His opponents cried havoc, and wailed that the cash should be saved as a nest egg, but Joey retorted: "We will use it to get a goose that will lay us golden eggs...
...early this year, Comedian Dave Garroway got up to go to work at 4 a.m., and before the sun was well up, the television world was pretty well agreed on the morning's work: Dave had laid an egg. He was launching a new TV newscast called Today (weekdays, 7 a.m., NBC), and he had almost no sponsors. But he had more communication gadgets-teletype machines, TV monitors, assorted dials, radio earphones, news films-than he knew what to do with. TV critics earnestly advised Dave Garroway, a nice fellow, to go back to being a funnyman. Dave grinned...
...Administration, which has found the price line as hard to hold as a broken egg, has had almost as much trouble holding on to its price bosses. Last week Washington got its third price administrator in 21 months: ex-Rent Stabilizer Tighe Woods, 42, who took over from retiring Price Boss Ellis Arnall. As Woods stepped in, OPS removed controls from more than a score of items now selling below OPS ceilings, e.g., jewelry, bedding, radio & TV sets...
Thus German spies combine meticulous exactitude with an unfailing rigidity of method. During World War I, for example, they made the brilliant discovery that a message written in acetic acid on the outside of an egg would disappear, once the egg was boiled, into the inside. The Allies caught on to this trick; but 25 years after, in World War II, the Germans were still using the boiled-egg device. The British, on the other hand, depended so much on their brilliant powers of improvisation that they often neglected the simplest details. Pinto, who used to inspect British agents before...