Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machines to Peru and Turkey, Gilera motorcycles from Argentina are buzzing around the U.S., and Fiat electrical motors-also made in Argentina-will soon go to Egypt. Last week the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Italy's state oil monopoly, was reportedly negotiating with high-level Argentine officials, hoping to pick up the U.S. oil contracts that Illia has threatened to annul...
...seventh time since World War II, the Federal Reserve Board last week made it harder for investors to buy stock with borrowed money. It did so by raising the so-called margin requirements from 50% to 70%-meaning that to pick up $1,000 worth of listed stock, an investor will have to put down at least $700. The Fed's seven governors, who often split on other matters, voted unanimously for the "precautionary" boost. But they passed the word around that they plan no further movement of margins for quite a time...
...other in the lobby; at night, the prospectors push their beds across their doors to guard maps and working papers. After technicians from Socony Mobil Oil checked into the adjacent Hotel De Jong, scouts from Caltex and NAM began to frequent the De Jong bar, hoping to pick up valuable slips of the tongue. Last week British Petroleum and a party of French seismologists also landed...
...Jewbird tells of a talking bird named Schwartz, who flies into the Lower East Side apartment of Salesman Harry Cohen, seeking refuge from the "anti-Semeets" (eagles, vultures and hawks who pick out the eyes of other birds). Schwartz settles down, helps Cohen's small son with his lessons, and reads him comics when the boy is sick. But Cohen cannot stand the bird, finally drives him out into the winter snow. In the spring the boy finds him in a lot, both eyes plucked clean, presumably by "anti-Semeets...
...rather than a single high scoring line. Four men have at least four goals, but none has more than six. Howe's five goals have kept Detroit ever with the Maple Leafs. The Red Wings, specially Howe, were tired and slow against Montreal and Boston last weekend, but may pick up now that the pressure is off Howe...