Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main reasons for last winter's price boost, according to FTC, was the inaccurate forecast for Brazil's 1954-5 5 crop. A year ago, a biting frost hit Brazil's second biggest producing area in Parana, damaging nearly 250 million trees. With forecasts of a meager 13 million-bag crop, some 4,000,000 bags less than expected, a wild price spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels...
Leaving Massena, U.S. and Canadian officials rode across to a field near Cornwall, Ont. where Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Ontario's Premier Leslie Frost and Governor Dewey took silver-plated shovels in hand and broke ground for the project's powerhouse...
Climbing the glacier was agony. At such altitudes, sweat and tears can turn to frost. One day Desio radioed (by portable transmitter) that his Hunza porters had deserted, fearful of the gaping crevasses. the toppling pillars of ice. For the next 23 days, nothing more was heard from...
...poem or passage wanted. Now for Nordine is broadcast after peak viewing hours, yet hundreds of listeners try to phone in every week. Those who fail to get through send in requests by mail. Last week he read, by request: Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude," Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?", Carl Sandburg's "Clean Curtains," I Corinthians...
Party-Girl Fees. Another silent witness was Andrew Frost, who was suspended a fortnight ago as assistant FHA director for New Mexico. Did he ask a contractor to throw a party, with girls, on the night of a ground-breaking ceremony? Did he attend another party at a motel in Alamogordo, N.Mex. at which a contractor supplied three girls at a cost of between $400 and $500? Did contractors pick up the tabs for two fishing trips to Mexico? Did a building supplier send him two carloads of concrete block for his own house? Frost refused to answer...