Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that racketing, rocketing free half of the world that has otherwise never had it so good, inflation vexes more people, weakens more economies and nags at more governments than any other problem except Communism itself. In the U.S. the cost of living, inching upward through twelve straight months of humming productivity, has reached a record high of 121 (the 1948-49 average: 100). In Australia the whirling chase of money after goods has doubled prices in ten years. India's prices have leaped so crazily (wholesale food prices were up 54% in two years) that the government...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame went into the lists against a tough one last week−CBS's go-minute electronic botch of Mike Todd's exercise in mass gaucherie at Madison Square Garden (see PEOPLE). Everything was on the side of Green Pastures−except the audience. The results, according to Trendex: Heaven, 12.5; Sodom and Gomorrah...
...care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result of the chemical warfare in the markets. Everyone was cheering the campaign last week except the vegetable vendors. Their complaint: the disinfectant withers the outer leaves of lettuce and romaine heads, making them highly antiseptic but less salable...
...city of Manchester (pop. some 700,000) worried about its water, which comes from the edge of Geiger Gulch. Beef cattle sent to market from the region were marked with yellow paint so their thyroids would be destroyed right after slaughter. No one has been damaged yet (except the plant worker who was shaved), but all Britain has had a disquieting look at a kind of accident that may become common in the atomic future...
...Harvard soccer team beat an aggressive Dartmouth squad 2 to 0 yesterday by playing the calibre of ball they could not maintain in Tuesday's loss to MIT. Except for five minutes of the first quarter when Harvard's defense suddenly slackened, the teams short passing attack sliced through Dartmouth for shot after shot to dominate the entire game in an exhibition of hard, excellent soccer...