Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Madryn, a small town on the coast of Patagonia, a lone freighter was unloading one day last week. A big wooden crate slipped from its hoist, splintered on the docks, and out tumbled a bright pile of costume jewelry from Japan. "Enough trinkets," said a bored customs officer, "to adorn every nanny goat in Patagonia." The jewelry, as the customs officer well knew, would soon be heading north from barren, duty-free Patagonia as a routine part of Latin America's most wide-open smuggling operation...
...around snivelling about how little money you have. Everybody knows you have just oodles stashed away for a rainy day. Well, friends, at the present time there's a flood. So pile up the money and build the dam that will help our nation's economy. Spend money. Waste money. Have a ball for yourself. Just so long as you really spread it around...
...comment on buyer disenchantment was nowhere causing greater anguish than in Detroit. Motor moguls assumed that the President was talking at them, thereby giving further currency to charges that new cars are overstyled, oversized and overpriced. With sales running 1.2 million behind 1957 and inventories continuing to pile up, the President's comments, said one Detroit automaker, were "grossly unfair...
...refusing to be part of this political pact, the President listed half a dozen ill effects on farmers if the bill were allowed to become law. Among them: it would reverse notable progress made to date in balancing farm supply with the demand for farm products, pile up more Government surpluses, discourage the growth of new markets for farmers' products, postpone the day when farmers can be freed from the straitjacket of controls. Regarding those, said Ike. "what the farm economy needs is a thaw rather than a freeze...
Clumsiness v. Caution. One raiding force of rebels staged a clumsy daylight attack outside Manzanillo, planning to lure Batista's armor out from the big city garrison, pile it up by triggering a homemade mine in the road, and then pick off the soldiers with rifle fire. The armor did not come out, but truckloads of soldiers did. The mine was a dud. Coordinated ground fire and strafing planes caught the rebels in an open field, and at least half of the 21-man force was wiped out. The government reported that twelve more rebels were killed when they...