Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shearing the Lamb. Breezy Bill Rogers, the son of an upstate New York paper-mill worker, washed dishes through Colgate, took his law at Cornell, became at 23 a member of New York District Attorney Tom Dewey's clean-sweeping staff, sometimes presented as many as 40 minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail...
...exchange's history, but the steam soon went out of the buying wave. As in the U.S., where Wall Street had a similar case of the shakes (see BUSINESS), prices seesawed indecisively for the rest of the week. Shares listed on the exchange lost $5 billion in paper values since the market's June peak...
Some of Canada's key industries felt a painful squeeze. Automobile sales for the first eight months of the year were off 6%. Newsprint production declined in September and was expected to dip further in the final quarter; higher production costs had trimmed paper-company profits by 20% to 30%. In prospering Alberta, a slump in both domestic and export sales of crude oil cut scheduled November production to the lowest rate in 2½ years. Drilling was off, and one drilling contractor reported: "One third of our rigs are down and the others are not making any money...
...opening of the Atlanta Symphony's 13th season last week, the women of the Symphony Guild promised everyone champagne punch at intermission, and apologized for serving it in paper cups. The New York Philharmonic, whose far less serene opening had come two days late because of a musicians' strike for more pay, last week featured gifted young (27) Thomas Schippers conducting Cherubini and Prokofiev symphonies. The Kansas City Philharmonic, lucky to make its 25th season despite a big deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert...
...tracked down the story behind it and found that Miss Jomes worked a steam-iron at the Acme Laundry in Eastpox, N.J. Last year, while ironing a shirt belonging to Laundry Mark x428Fy, she had noticed a small piece of paper protruding from the slot on the collar. Curious, she pulled it out and read: "Whoever you are, I love the way you press my shirts. I think I may love you too. Interested?" She blushed, but daringly wrote her answer--"Interested, sorta," and slipped it in the collar-slot. Ten days later came another shirt from x428Fy and, sure...