Word: popping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Stevens, having just resigned as town treasurer of Andover, Vt. (pop. 213), sat down last week to write a difficult letter to the nearby Rutland Daily Herald. "This letter is not to be construed as an effort to disperse blame," he began, "nor am I trying to be dramatic. The mood is that of self-condemnation, coupled with a profound disappointment in myself as a person and citizen...
They mobbed the refreshment counters, chucked ice cream bricks and pretzels through the air, and clambered all over the serving tables. The 30 cases of soda pop, 60 gallons of orange juice, 30 gallons of ice cream, and 15 cartons of pretzels were gone within an hour...
...Jackson (pop. 60,000) has never been a rich town. In the best times, most of its people make less than $3,500 a year. Its chief industries are automobile parts and railroading. There have been layoffs at the machine shops, some of them seasonal, some of them not. Then the New York Central laid off 450 all at one crack, part of 8,100 furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things...
...guinea pigs, the foundation, cooperating with the Poloris Co., which manufactures one type of ammoniated powder called Amm-i-dent, has chosen the schoolchildren of Mahopac, N.Y. (pop. 1,109). Some 500 Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...
Last week, despite this record, buyers were waiting in line when the Browns once again went on the block. One of them was William DeWitt, 46, who got his start in baseball selling peanuts and soda pop, and worked up in 1936 to general manager of the club. Along with his big brother Charlie, 48, traveling secretary of the Browns for the past twelve years, Bill DeWitt scraped up some money and plunged in where other treading angels had gotten a hotfoot. The DeWitt brothers bought control (58%) of the Browns for about...