Word: lime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House inscribed: "With deep appreciation, Jacqueline Kennedy, August, 1963") to the doctors and nurses. She was anxious to leave, and at 10:43 a.m., Joe Kennedy's blue Chrysler limousine pulled up to building 3707 at Otis Air Force Base. President Kennedy entered the squat, lime-hued hospital wing, emerged four minutes later, his left hand firmly clasp ing his wife's right. The sun had broken through a grey overcast. They looked, remarked a bystander, "like a couple of school kids." Thus Jackie Kennedy, smil ing faintly, went home last week, after the birth and death...
...holdings usually mate in some way. His refinery in Panama-co-owned with Continental Oil, and probably the biggest investment there since the canal-processes oil from the tankers of his National Bulk Carriers and other Ludwig lines. Recently Ludwig planted 1,000,000 orange, lemon and lime trees in Panama; now he is carving out a port near the plantation, intends to freeze and can the juice right on board one of his ships. All these interests have naturally steered him into real estate, and he has property holdings from mid-Manhattan to Bermuda, where he is building...
...miners already dig 90% of Brazil's iron ore, 95% of its bauxite, beryllium and mica, all of its graphite and nickel, most of its diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime. And on its rolling farm lands, 16.5 million cattle and 8,500,000 hogs fatten for market. All this, though it is just beginning to wake up to the 20th century...
...Dead. In the center were pyramids and temples, markets and assembly plazas; beyond lay homes and farm lands, spreading out miles from the center. It was a brilliantly colored city, says Acosta, "shining red like blood." Palace and temple exteriors were painted with layer upon layer of lime volcanic powder and natural iron oxide, then buffed to a gleaming finish with green jadeite polishing stones. All streets were paved with a sort of rock-hard red stucco, 4-in. thick...
...markets 40 product groups, from Rose's Lime Juice, lemon barley squash and phosferine tonic wine to jelly, jams, canned foods and Christmas pudding. But tonic is the mainstay, and Sir Frederick Hooper, a onetime botany student who became the firm's managing director in 1948, has combined shrewd marketing and sophisticated advertising to make it a mass seller in more than 70 nations. Bitter Lemon, which already outsells tonic in Britain-Schweppes people like to say that it has schweppt the island-is a concoction containing ground lemons, quinine and secret essence; Schweppes hopes that it will...