Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costs, and where drought conditions exist, is losing his shirt. It takes just so much and so long to produce beef ready for market, and without price support, you're going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder. One answer is for small operators to sell directly to the consumer who has ac cess to home freezers and commercial lock ers. A cushion for seasonal fluctuations is the answer to inflation, labor unions, fairtrade...
...Hurley is taking no chances in the feast-or-famine airplane business. A full 30% of his backlog is civilian business, and he is not concentrating on engines alone. Curtiss-Wright is making electronic equipment, textile spindles, windshield wipers, precision clutches, and diesel engine governors. A plastics division makes household gadgets, nylon-molded gears, wheels, and bushings for automobiles. Says Hurley: "Eventually, I would like to match our military business with civilian business, dollar for dollar...
...famed Windsor greys last week were harnessed once again to the Irish state coach to carry their mistress to Westminster for the opening of Parliament. In an age of internal combustion engines, the greys were as much of an anachronism as the three gleaming detachments of the Household Cavalry which escorted the Queen's coach, but all played their parts in the elaborate ceremonial of royal rule with the dignity and solemnity that Britons expect of the occasion...
...pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
...eczemalike eruption of the hands is often caused by the defatting and drying effects of soap and detergents used in dishwashing, especially during cold weather, the doctors report. And it may be aggravated by many common household irritants, such as bleaches, waxes, polishes, or even hand lotions and cold creams. These create a breeding ground for germs. "A common history," they find, "is that of an eruption beginning on the left fourth finger under rings and later spreading to other portions of the hands [caused] by the retention of dishwashing soaps or detergents beneath the rings as a result...