Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POUPE'ES DE PARIS. The adult puppet show features doll versions of Pearl Bailey and Frank Sinatra-but Frankenstein is the most convincing. It doesn't pay to sit too close because he comes clomp, clomping right down off the stage...
...sparkling sunshine of a Hawaii morning, a stream of limousines purred up to a yellow concrete building over looking Pearl Harbor. Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone alighted from one and hurried inside...
...dollar, Harris reports that they have become the highest paid professionals in the U.S. Before the 1929 crash, those in private practice averaged $5,300 a year; they took a cut to $4,000 during the Depression. They had won back most of this loss by the time of Pearl Harbor, and have climbed steadily ever since then to a current national average of $25,000 or more (far more than such other professionals as dentists and lawyers...
...Much for Drugs. Price rises in drugs and prescriptions are a source of endless and usually fruitless argument because of the medical revolution since the sulfas appeared in 1937. The average price of a prescription before Pearl Harbor was 93?; by 1956 it was up to $2.62, and it is now $3.10. Prescription items used to be less than 10% of all drug sales; now they are more than 30%, and they add up to a big business of more than $1.5 billion a year. With bulk buying of drugs by hospitals and government agencies, and massive sales...
...look chic, Jeanne," said Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of France's Prime Minister, to the milkmaid at the Pompidous' country place. Jeanne was indeed a fetching sight: gold sandals, gay striped frock in the latest mode, gleaming pearl fingertips. "Merci, madame," replied Jeanne. Then she explained how a farmer's daughter so far from Paris could keep up so surely with style changes: "I read Elle...