Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a part of it." Last spring Harvester seemed on even solider footing, as it overhauled its refrigeration department, doubled the number of its regional sales offices and trumpeted that it was launching a multimillion-dollar sales program. Last week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator plant for $19 million to fast-growing Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. (which is backed by RCA and Sears, Roebuck), announced that henceforth it would stick to its $1 billion-a-year farm-equipment...
...Citizens of London, wish us Godspeed." Within an hour, some 2,000,000 Britons had watched their first television commercial-a tube of Gibbs toothpaste sliding majestically down a mountain stream in a cake of ice while an announcer crooned, "It's cool, cool, cool." For years, the debate over permitting American-style commercial TV to invade the unsullied air waves of Britain has rent the nation with a fury unmatched since Burke demanded conciliation for the rebellious American colonists. But at the end of the new Independent Television Authority's first day of telecasting. Britain was still...
...earth's climate is affected by interstellar dust and gas that sometimes shut off much of the sun's light. The Ice Ages were caused partly by such shadowing, partly by the slipping of the earth's crust, which shifted now-tropical sections of the earth's surface into the polar regions...
Married. Barbara Ann Scott, 27, Canada's pert, blonde 1948 Olympic figure-skating champion, star of the Hollywood Ice Revue (1952-55); and Tommy King, 31, press agent for Chicago Stadium Sports Enterprises; she for the first time, he for the second; in Toronto, Canada...
Although Pan American had served liquor since the 19303, domestic lines did not start until Northwest cracked the ice in 1949. Now almost all major U.S. lines serve liquor aloft. On first-class flights, American, United and T.W.A. pour free drinks. Heaviest pourer: Western Air Lines. On 18 of its 90 daily flights along the West Coast it serves free champagne, and stewardesses are instructed to keep the glasses brimming. Western, which plans to add three more champagne flights this month, claims 93% of its passengers accept at least one glass...