Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private discoveries--finding that a denunciation of an MTA fare hike someone once sang for me was originally a Progressive Party campaign song from the 1948 Boston mayoral race, or recognizing "The House Carpenter," an English Ballad, as a source or relative of Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather." There are enough songs for everyone to make similar discoveries of his own, or just to revel in familiar things, like the gruesome fates of the wedding guests in "Froggy Went A-Courting...
...Hitachi subsidiary began producing magnets in March at a $2,000,000 plant in Edmore, Mich., that it owns jointly with General Electric. Mitsubishi, whose San Angelo, Tex., subsidiary plant has been turning out executive jets since 1967, recently acquired a factory in Moonachie, N.J., to make synthetic leather. The Tokyo government is encouraging the push. This year it began giving Japanese investors a 30% tax write-off on new U.S. ventures...
Around them swirls the carnival of the auto show. The 300 cars and 60 motorcycles are roped off from the crush of the public, the starflake paint mirroring the mustache and leather jacket of a hot-rodder bending close to inspect the chrome-plated carburetors, and his little brother in jeans and a Ski-Doo jacket peering in to see how high the speedometer goes. Down the aisle sits "Peaches and Kreme," a 1934 Ford coupe with a 1968 Corvette engine and a body painted "Campus Creme" on top and "Bronze Starflake" below (and a sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS...
...this season of chill and exasperation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber arrived in Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children...
...gamble works, the government will deserve credit. It it fails, the Chancellor can always take refuge in less hallowed tradition: he can return in the fall to take from his red leather box a proposal for higher taxes to pay for the lollipops...