Word: pint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking. Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian music and broadcast advice on where to rent cars and find free pineapple juice...
...Cream Cohen, like other B.R. owners, had to put up about $30,000 for his franchise. His store sells upwards of $100,000 a year in one-scoop (25?) and two-scoop (45?) cones, hand-packed cartons (75? a pint) and other goodies...
...rising popularity of U.S. strawberries, until recently a rarity in Europe, symbolizes the gustatory trend. Cargo jets normally fly whole planeloads of American berries twice a week to Sweden, where they sell for at least $1.30 a pint. Swiss customers get their deliveries the day they arrive from a trucking service that meets the flights at the airport in Geneva. Robert Flatoe, an American living in Frankfurt, who has become the leading European importer of strawberries, plans to charter about 20 Boeing 707s this spring to carry 1,600,000 Ibs. from California to the Continent. There is a growing...
...electorate, and those concerns are reflected in the spectrum of presidential candidates. Allende, a physician by training, has done most to dramatize the tragic conditions. As a panacea, he promises to nationalize mining, banking and foreign trade, and see to it that every Chilean baby has a pint of milk...
...cervix and curettage (scraping) of the womb lining. For the next four weeks, most physicians consider abortion too hazardous because of the danger of causing hemorrhage or even puncturing the uterus. Beyond the 16th week, the preferred method is "saline induction," the injection of about half a pint of salt solution into the womb. New York Hospital, which has 112 beds in its women's division, is scheduling eight D and Cs a day, plus 16 salines a week. St. Luke's Medical Center, with 137 beds available, does six D and Cs daily, 18 salines a week...