Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's most venerable poets, New England's patriarchal Robert (Birches) Frost, 79, and the Midwest's lean-jawed Carl (Chicago) Sandburg, 76, looking more than ever like blood brothers, showed up at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for some new laurels. To them and eight other U.S. authors went awards from the Limited Editions Club for having written "books which seem most likely to survive as classics...
...profited from crop failures. The coffee and cocoa price boom, plus tight restrictions on imports, has changed Brazil from a debtor nation nine months ago to one that has a trade surplus of almost $370 million. Cocoa prices went up 112% after the failure of the African crop. Though frost cut Brazil's coffee exports 15%, prices went up 50%. Net additional profit to Brazil: $165 million...
Several days before the Journal-Bulletin story broke, the Associated Press fired its Boston bureau's veteran (29 years) sportswriter, William R. King, who was on the payroll for $500. The United Press "accepted the resignation" of its Boston bureau manager, Gardner L. Frost, a U.P. employee for 17 years, who got $500 last year from the track. The Boston Post, whose track reporter was on the list, said that he was not an employee of the paper but a "private contractor who sells a racetrack service to the Post." Hearst's American and Record replied that they...
Four-time Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Robert Frost, to his surprise, turned 80. Explained he: "I got my sister's birthday mixed up with my own and just recently discovered through old letters that I was born in 1874, not 1875." A reporter asked him how it felt to learn that he was a year older than he had long believed. Said Frost: "I'd begun to suspect it for some time...
...Chapman promised the coffeemen: "Our first duty will be to tell American housewives that the [frost blight] reports are true." Mrs. Swanbeck summed up: "The hearts of women beat the same all over the world. We are going to keep our friendship, and it is not going to dissolve in a cup of coffee...