Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January 21, one of your chaps, Charles W. Bailey, put a rotten egg in his beer. He was speaking of the insanity code, and in doing so evidenced what might very well be considered poor sportsmanship by writing: "There seem to be ways of getting around the matter of salaries--you can start a "Buck-A-Month" Club, like Stanford, and have the Alumni pay the bill...
Policemen, stationed in the rear of the hall against just such an emergency, finally located the light switch, then nabbed 13 suspects as they headed for the door. When the intruders had been hauled off to jail, the shaken poets resumed their readings. "This," declared one, pointing to an egg stain on his coat, "is a decoration from the international brigades in Stalin's service...
Because poultry raisers had increased their flocks, to cash in on support prices, and the warm winter had increased egg production unseasonally, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan said he had "no alternative." By thus permitting prices to drop, he hoped to step up egg-eating. This week the department began to support eggs at a new level of 37? a dozen v. the 45? average last year. It looked as though even the Department of Agriculture was finally being forced to try a freer market to ease the enormous farm surpluses...
...Union quickly learns your home telephone number. One night a few weeks ago the operator phoned and began reading a long, detailed National Affairs query in a disinterested voice: How's unemployment, beef prices, mink sales? What are Seattle drinking habits, changes in bank deposits, Christmas trade forecasts, egg supplies, man-in-the-street thoughts, apartment rents, house sales? Suddenly she stopped reading and gasped: 'Good lord, what they want to know...
This season the same team minus Walter has worked it back to first-class shape. Last week came a decision. Leopold Stokowski, 67, informed the directors he would not be available next season; the board voted unanimously to make 53-year-old, egg-bald Dimitri Mitropoulos the Philharmonic's regular conductor...