Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight of light planes hovered like hummingbirds over the green eastern jungle of Peru last week, dipping into tiny airstrips and steaming rivers to pick up waiting passengers, then heading back to a tin-roofed hangar by remote Lake Yarinacocha. They discharged their passengers, U.S. Protestant missionaries and their Indian assistants, darted back for more. One of the world's most gallant little airlines thus brought together the 300 missionaries and workers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics to S.I.L.'s yearly refresher course...
Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...will quickly provide new thrust for the lagging business pace. Beyond, there is the many-sided U.S. economy, in which a fall in one industry is often balanced by a rise in another. Autos may slump next year, but the enormous highway program, which started slowly in 1957, will pick up momentum, producing new demands for men, machines and materials in 1958. Railroads are down, but housing has already had its recession and, since it was on the way up at year's end, should pick up more next year. Overlaying all, there is the mighty U.S. populace, whose...
...cattle industry has long looked for a way to soothe cattle on the way to market. Distraught cattle pick fights with their neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...
...business). The New York management outfits now give their clients a choice of 617 attractions, including 96 sopranos, 42 tenors, 101 pianists, 50 violinists, 65 instrumental ensembles, 47 vocal ensembles, four harpists, one marimbist and an assortment of special acts. Many younger artists use the local concert circuit to pick up experience, but many of the big names no longer want to tour widely. As a result, the big-time virtuoso recital is going out of vogue, and most communities want a group ranging from the Black Watch to the Juilliard String Quartet. This year there are about...