Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot of the downed transport, John Wayne plays perfectly the lean and leathery hero that has made him a top box-office attraction for years. His crew is pictured as a pack of irresponsible children who would not last ten minutes in the wilderness without Wayne's paternal guidance: one of them does not follow Wayne's orders, and as a result freezes to death; Wayne has to slap another out of hysteria, cajole a third into courage. The high-strung pilots of the rescue planes include such familiar character actors as Andy Devine and Allyn Joslyn...
...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
Canada, which has had singular success in maintaining a budget surplus, last week was demonstrating one way to get more government revenues: cut taxes. In April 1951, Canada increased its already high cigarette tax by 3? a pack, to 25?. This gave the smuggling of cigarettes such a boost (an estimated 18% of legal sales) that annual revenues from the tax dropped $4,700,000 to $169.8 million. A year later, Canada removed the 3? tax increase; government revenues went up $9,400,000 for the year. But smugglers were still busy...
Last February Canada lopped another 4? from the tax. This time, manufacturers joined in, cut their prices by 2? a pack. Sales boomed. In the first half of this year, legal cigarette sales were 15% higher than a year ago. Last week Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada Ltd., the country's biggest, reported that cigarette sales for the five months from March through July were up 18½% from last year, and police seizure of smuggled cigarettes dropped almost 50%. And the government hopes the tax cuts will bring another increase in revenues...
...deficiency of the churches was not the only thing that Dean Scott's 43 young men (and twelve of their wives) took back with them from their summer's labor. Said one of them last week as he prepared to pack up for home: "I won't forget how tired a man gets after a day in the factory-or what it's like to go through an alley and see 3,000 rats...