Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States. A revolution in farming techniques has meant that fewer farmers can grow more than enough food to fill American stomachs. Competition with Canada, Australia, and Argentina has made the government unable to trade excess food in foreign markets except at prices well below parity. In business, this pair of events would force migration to other industries. But farmers have tenaciously clung to their homesteads, counting on governmental laws to save them from the law of supply and demand...
...despite such a vast collection of meaningless and unrelated curia including one of President Dunster's undershirts filed under "small things," Shipton maintains that he does not run Harvard's junkheap. He has steadfastly refused a pair of shoes invented and offered by a student in 1936. THE ANGLER
Last week a real-life shoe salesman, Thomas Bata Jr. of the Czech shoe-manufacturing family, was confident that he could vastly improve on O. Henry's imaginary sales stunt. A new Bata factory (one of 37 in the free world) outside Lima will make 1,000,000 pairs of canvas and rubber shoes a year. Bata expects to sell them for 11 soles (70?) a pair through 46 stores and by circulating through the highlands demonstration vans with movies, native salesmen and balloons for the kiddies. "I think," Bata says, "I've got something better than cockleburs...
Mobilist Alexander Calder saw his "prisoner" as two black triangles pierced with a spear. Philadelphia's Wharton Esherick used a pair of leaning monoliths to convey his idea. Others showed a tiny figure trapped, fly-like, in a conical web of wires; shapeless wooden chunks joined by metal bars; a writhing metal mass with sharp edges and a pair of protruding wings. Only one winner gave his prisoner a human form...
ROBERT A. LOVETT, 57, former Secretary of Defense and investment banker, was elected to the board and the executive committee of the Union Pacific Railroad, a pair of posts he has held before...