Word: fork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band at her G.I. parties. "Those cute things, just 19 or 20, away from home . . . They're just so cunning. They're Perle this and Perle that. Then they'll look shy at me and say, 'Would it be good manners if I used this fork?' " She hoped, Perle added, that people no longer considered her frivolous. "They've changed a little, don't you think? They thought I was just a partygiver . .. Well, I'll tell you, I'm just the hardest-working girl you know...
...your July 16 story "The Bell of Kamela" we have a new variation of a perennial hoax. Older examples include the story of the Confederate general who, returning from the wars, stashed his sword in the fork of a young tree, whence it "grew" upward along with the tree only to be found long afterward, high above the ground, by the general's grandson. Now we hear of a cowbell which, tied by a pioneer to a young sapling, is found presumably 73 years later at the top of a towering ponderosa pine...
...manager of 410 rich Missouri acres near Kansas City, was breaking in 15 new hands this week. They did not know much about farming; they were all Episcopal divinity students. "They're as green as can be," said he. "They don't know a manure fork from a hay fork . . . That doesn't do the farm profits any good." But Farmer Cochel is not primarily interested in the profits. His most important crop these days is well-rounded clergymen...
...Indianapolis plant cut its space from 6,400 sq. ft. to 3,600 sq. ft., nevertheless managed to increase the volume of goods handled from 36 million lbs. to 97 million lbs. by installing fork lifts, hydraulic jacks and portable conveyor units, while trimming its receiving department from eleven men to eight...
...Ford Motor Co. recently spent $50,000 for fork trucks, tractors and trailers in a new plant, saved $160,000 in handling costs the first year alone...