Word: flings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Progress. Economist Villalbi's cure for these ills calls for a mixture of more freedom in some areas and more government control in others. He aims to brake the factory-building fling, concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...
...Hughes, 51, for more than a quarter-century Hollywood's most eligible (estimate: $200 million) catch, was snared at last. The winner: sometime Cinemactress Jean (It Happens Every Spring) Peters, 30, for ten years a close friend of Hughes's, not counting a year's marital fling in the interim with a Texas oilman...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...elections were to be honest. This time, said Pibul sternly, there were to be no "fire cards" (faked ballots) and no "parachutists" (people who vote under other people's names). As a final democratic fillip, Pibul announced that he and eight of his ministers would take their first fling at running for office...
...Sympathy. With time out for the Spanish-American War (he was a corporal), a 1912 trip to Europe and a five-year fling at retirement that ended in 1937, Rudy Dirks has been chronicling the Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them...