Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news came out of a 236-page report from the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization. The non-Communist world, reported FAO, is now producing 25% more food than it did in 1946-47. The non-Communist world is producing about 20% more rice, milk and cotton than it did before the war; it is catching 20% more fish; it is producing about 30% more wheat, meat and fats; about 59% more sugar. It has 2% more food available per capita, than it had before the war. FAO warned that there were many regions, e.g., back-country Latin America...
...exhaustively. His hard digging into stories has turned up a handful of beats and earned him the nickname "Bulldog" in the city room. By last week, as a result of Bulldog Brunt's smart reporting and shrewd detective work, the death of Doris Oestreicher was big news on Page One of many a big-city paper, and three people, including Doris Oestreicher's mother, were under arrest for suspected abortion...
...would, in fact, be giving a death certificate for the girl? The allergist was shocked, said he intended to do no such thing. Then Examiner Aston hastily changed his mind about releasing the body. As he scheduled an investigation into the death, the Bulletin broke the story on Page...
...Frawley's first selling coup was to talk two banks into cashing checks written with his pens. Then Frawley started a big advertising campaign to plug the only pens with "bankers' approval." By using high-pressure selling in stores, bright, eye-catching counter displays, and full-page newspaper advertisements, he sold Paper-Mates when other pens could not be given away...
...gone to school only as far as the third grade, he now absorbed all that prison libraries could teach him about chemistry, biology, ornithology. Displaying heroic patience, he carried out thousands of experiments with homemade apparatus, found remedies for major bird diseases that had baffled pathologists. His 500-page Digest of the Diseases of Birds, published in 1943, is still widely used...