Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France no paper save the Communist L'Humanité has denounced Premier Charles de Gaulle more outspokenly than Paris' frisky young L'Express. But looking on at the 39 old parliamentarians who were studying De Gaulle's proposed new constitution, L'Express sighed: "To see again these men and their methods, to have looked at them for the last time at work, gives one a desire to scream 'yes' to any new regime, to any constitution, provided it changes things...
...alleyway off Sago Lane in Singapore's Chinatown, beneath banners and scrolls and paper models of ships and planes, dozens of Chinese last week played mah-jongg by the light that gleamed from two adjoining houses. From inside the houses came a deafening cacophony of clanging cymbals, shrieking flutes and thumping drums. In the ancient Taoist tradition, the mah-jongg players had come to pay their last respects to friends and relatives who lay dying inside...
...Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral...
Ghosts & Coffin Carriers. On grounds that the burning of joss paper constitutes a fire hazard and that the houses are a menace to health, the Singapore city council recently decided that the houses must be moved out of the center of town. But last week the perplexed council members were finding that this was more easily decreed than done. One new site proposed by the council proved to be so near a cemetery that professional coffin carriers would have less distance to travel, and would lose revenue. In the other new location proposed by the council, prosperous citizens were complaining...
Goodyear Tire 10.9 16.4 International Paper 16.2 14.1 C.I.T. Financial 9.4 10.2 Food Machinery 3.3 5.0 Kaiser Industries 2.9 4.0 Pan American 3.3 (loss...