Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the Spanish economy. Franco's henchmen handed down two wage increases last year, and though they tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital: "Don't ride the streetcars...
...within two weeks. If it did not, Esso would cancel its $2,000,000 modernization program at the Bayonne plant, and very likely move out altogether-just as Tidewater Oil Co. did two years ago. The Esso plant pays one-fourth of the tax bill of Bayonne (pop. 81,500), has a $1,000,000 monthly payroll for its 1,800 workers. Said Mississippi-born Edwards: "If we pull out and shift the tax load to other industries, a number of these other industries will also pull out. The city would go bankrupt...
Like a thousand other villages in Italy's Mezzogiorno (midday, i.e., the south), Castelpoto (pop. 2,800) was bone-poor and bright Red. A medieval huddle of stone houses high in the Neapolitan Apennines, it had no sewage system, no running water, no schoolhouse, no movie, and almost no electricity. On chilly winter evenings peasant women lit bundles of twigs on their mud floors to warm their chimneyless, smoke-blackened houses. When party organizers moved in after the war, Communism took Castelpoto with a rush-even to the local branch of Catholic Action, whose leader, Costanzo Savoia, became mayor...
Listerine was still a small family affair when Gerard Lambert was born in 1886. But the Lambert Pharmacal Co. was already rich enough to pop huge silver spoons in the mouths of all the little Lamberts. Their St. Louis home was full of the murmur of menservants, and in the dining room of their country mansion, "there were always two little colored girls ... to waft the flies from us with enormous peacock feathers." When the time came for Gerard to go to Yale, he thought it would be wise to case the ancient joint before entrusting his person...
Against Columbia, Forte was the entire story. When he was not driving around Crimson defenders to pop in jump shots, or extending his current free throw shooting mark, he was passing off to unguarded teammates for easy goals...