Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government pays one-third of the bill; the rest comes from private groups. The Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants runs the program, selects the students and pays their fare. In return, Russia provides full tuition, plus stipends of $166 a month-five times the standard allowance for Russian university students...
...long ago, chicken was a costly delicacy in Europe; it was said that the European workingman ate a chicken only when either he or the bird was sick. Now chicken is common fare, and not just on Sunday. Much of the credit belongs to U.S. chicken farmers, who have brought down prices from Antwerp to Zurich by delivering frozen broilers to Europe at 30.5? a lb. Last year the intake of chicken rose 23% in West Germany alone. Demand for chicken expanded briskly in the rest of Europe, and U.S. farmers, with shipments worth $45 million, grabbed nearly half...
Twenty-two students asked voters for $1 contributions in the form of a "voluntary poll tax" as they left polling places Tuesday. Other schools in the Boston area did not fare quite so well, collecting about $100 among them...
...creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
Gains were general in industries ranging from brewing, cosmetics and food processing to lumber, gypsum and aerospace. Standard Brands' earnings rose from $4.6 million to $5.1 million and Procter & Gamble's from $333 million to $35.1 million. In the long-sputtering transportation business, a 3% fare rise helped lift the profits of United...