Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objective in the decisive event was to fly over the Dauphiné Alps to Toulon, some 250 miles south, on the Mediterranean. Paul and his borrowed French Breguet-901 were towed aloft by a powered biplane, released at about 2,500 ft. With the rest of the pack he circled the field and eased gently toward the Alps. Mt. Ventoux (6,011 ft.) separated the men from the boys; many contestants turned back. To Paul, the problem seemed familiar-it was no tougher than soaring along the lee side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached...
This week France got yet another financial jolt: a new tax on French cigarettes, raising their price by 4? a pack. The cigarette tax (estimated annual return: $63 million) is only the first of a series of new levies by which the Mollet government hopes to raise $285 million to pay the costs of the Algerian...
CANNED FOOD PRICES are heading higher. To meet rising costs, packers forecast a 5% wholesale hike for 1956 pack. Retail rise...
Hughes was warmly received until he started taking photographs and giving the tin containers for his tropic-pack film to the black children. Their parents snatched the shining tin away, fearing it was a whiteman's charm. An old man thumped Hughes's chest and cried: "You come to pay respects to Lenshina, all right. But don't come bring silver magic...
Addressing a pack of peace-loving fellow travelers, Britain's white-maned Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 82, the Red Dean of Canterbury, tartly reported that he was "shocked" recently to be accosted in London by a prostitute. Said he, in view of his age and clerical garb: "I didn't approve of the girl's taste." Moral of his story: "Such a thing would never happen in the Soviet Union...