Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deficiency. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Bernado Arroyo decided to kill herself, swallowed some pills, was rushed to the hospital, had her stomach pumped, learned she had taken vitamin tablets...
Last week he was back at one of his old campuses, Thunderbird Field, near Phoenix, Ariz., "the country club of the Air Corps." He was also back in the education business, this time in a private way. Barton Yount was president of the American Institute for Foreign Trade, newly organized as a nontaxable, non-profit educational corporation...
...discount to "Thunderbird College" was being studied by the House Surplus Property Committee. Said Chairman Roger C. Slaughter (D., Mo.): "This may be a perfectly legitimate enterprise, but it is worth looking into." Among Thunderbird's backers: five Phoenix and New York banks, several U.S. firms doing business in Latin America...
Mental Cruelty. In Phoenix, Ariz., Frank Perkins sued for divorce, told the judge: "Well, your honor, on five occasions she hit me over the head with an ax. . . . If this keeps up, somebody's going to get hurt." Divorce granted...
Moppets at Work. Department stores and merchandising chains pledged no price lifts on present stocks. Organized buyers' strikes threatened in several cities, but failed to develop. But an unorganized one did, in miniature. In Phoenix, Ariz. tricycling vendors boosted their price of ice cream sticks by a penny. Result: moppets refused to buy. By the third day the price was back to a nickel...