Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sugar cane, meat, poultry and eggs, America's 3,000,000 farmers will pock et 10% less income this year than in 1966. After six straight years of rising income amid inflation, the slump in prices gives the farmer less net purchasing power than he has enjoyed since mid-Depression 1934. While complaint has always been their bumper crop, U.S. farmers last week threatened to beat their plowshares into swords...
...fiscal 1967, his enterprises had total sales of nearly $19 million, up 18% from last year, and gross earnings of $1.1 million, 25% more than in 1966. His department store, "Town House," is the best-stocked on the island and is being expanded into a shopping center planned for mid-1968. His three-store Pay Less supermarket group will grow to five by the end of next year. His American Motors Agency is the only, one in the world that outsells both G.M. and Ford in its sales area. A restaurant that he leased for 50 years is considered...
...Goodman, a piquant blonde who lectures the customers on the evils of drink. She is met with a shower of catcalls and booze. But then appears Lemonade Joe, played by Karel Fiala, an actor who looks like a reincarnation of William S. Hart. He heroically shoots a fly in mid-air and scatters the crowd...
Visually, Director-Writer Oldfich Lipsky has made his film almost as zany as the plot; when Lemonade Joe enters Death Valley, he jumps down a vast canyon-only to enjoy a landing as soft as his drink. In a shootout, bullets meet in mid-air and cancel each other. A henchman pulls rabbits and bouquets from his holster. Street signs are all in English, but the dialogue is laconically drawled in jawbreaking Czech. "Hands up" is the kind of phrase that can only gain in translation-particularly when the translation is "Ruky hore...
...High 'mid the clouds of Fame's bright...