Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black, brown, and yellow stripes in the background represent the dark races of the world. The white dove of "peace" is sitting on top of an egg, the world. The white man (the "dove of peace"), Dixon explains, is only a small portion of the world's population, but he's trying to rule the world. To stay on top, the white man has to use many tricks...
...major challenge to the Administration's price freeze. Claiming that they cannot make a profit at present prices as long as the cost of freeze-exempt feed grains keeps rising, poultry farmers cut their losses by systematically gassing, drowning and suffocating a million baby chicks and selling their egg-laying hens. Other farmers sent pregnant sows to the slaughterhouse and dispatched old milk cows to hamburger heaven. These tactics raise a two-headed specter of shortages and higher prices for milk, eggs and meat in the next few months...
...they can grow into a healthy prejudice, he quoted the opening lines of The Prisoner of Zenda: "'I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?' said my brother's wife. 'My dear Rose,' I answered, laying down my egg spoon, 'why in the world should I do anything?'" Soon Hills began disintegrating. His Rust Hills personality split into three parts-the Fussy Man who made lists, an amiable boob named Larry Placebound, who charged about the country doing marginal journalistic assignments, and a troll called LOMLIC, which...
...BIGGEST mistake many of Dunlop's adversaries made was not to take him seriously. He refused to play the game by Harvard's rules of quiet civility, using his style as a hard-boiled tough egg, two-fisted beer drinking labor negotiator to keep his opponents off-balance. He took over a splintered Faculty in 1970 and in the next several years knit the deeply-rooted divisions back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. As Otto von Bismarck had once manipulated German liberals into supporting his reunification efforts, so did Harvard's Iron...
What Wall Streeters would like most is a sustained, resolute upswing in prices. In the past, a roaring bull market has never failed to bring back disaffected investors. But that raises a chicken-and-egg question: Can the big price rally needed to bring individual investors back occur if they do not come back to begin with...