Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper than bearings...
...Much Cash? Wall Street's financial experts criticize the tendency of Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price a onetime banker, to hang onto the company cash instead of putting it to work to earn more cash. Westinghouse has a larger cash reserve ($344 million) than G.E ($307 million), which does twice as much business. While loaded with cash, Westinghouse has been borrowing for expansion, now has a debt of $325 million, G.E. has none...
Paths of Glory. Briefly, Stengel stayed with Pittsburgh and the Phillies. Then he came to the Giants. He won two games of the 1923 World Series for them with two home runs, but after that he was too old (33) to hang on. He was promptly traded to Boston. Undaunted, he quipped: "The paths of glory lead but to the Braves...
...faster than anyone else during World War II and in the postwar boom. From 1939 through 1951, per capita farm incomes zoomed from $244 to $970, a gain of almost 300%; at the same time, non-farm incomes climbed only 175% to $1,735. And farmers have managed to hang on to most of the gain. Historically, farm prices have plummeted at least 50% after a war; in the years since the Korea peak, the drop has been only 21%. Furthermore, because so many millions have left the farms, the slump has brought only a 5% drop in per capita...
...doubt whatever that Perón's power and prestige had suffered a shattering blow. If the government commanders could beat down the rebellion, they might let Perón come back on stage, but scarcely as the strongman of old. Even if he manages to hang on to the title of President for a while, Sept. 16 is likely to go down in history as the day Juan Perón's luck ran out as dictator of Argentina...