Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
Riding Out the Rise. At week's end Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products and bus fares got state subsidies, while income taxes were hiked and new taxes levied on horse-race betting, cigarettes, soft drinks and automobiles. And for the first time, tax-dodgers were made liable to imprisonment...
...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...
...that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead...
Radcliffe Council yesterday put a 15 member minimum on Annex undergraduate organizations seeking a recharter. In changing the by-laws, the Council also moved the rechartering date to three weeks after Pay Day, instead of the regular...