Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost last year: $225 million). At least two Aroostook potato shippers collected Government checks for around $500,000; a dozen or so got more than $150,000 each; at least 31 over $100,000 apiece. In all Maine, 4,503 farmers averaged $15,000 apiece in Government bounty, Washington Post Newsman John W. Ball reported last week...
Good Years & Bad. Embarrassed by the Post series, Aroostook farmers rushed forward with explanations. They argued, as every farmer does, that good years only made up for many bad ones, and that their business is at the mercy of the weather. They pointed out that potato raising is an expensive business, with all the costs of planting, harvesting and shipping to come out of their Government checks. But even the potato lobby in Washington (headed by Senator Owen Brewster) had realized that it had begun to overdo...
...Edgartown, Mass., Emily Post came to grips with a new problem in etiquette: what does the well-bred hostess do when a guest pilfers a prized gewgaw from the breakfast tray? A few days after Hostess Post's loss at her country home, a discreet item appeared in the local newspaper, touching on the "unpleasant situation" and appealing gently for its correction by "the person, perhaps young and certainly thoughtless, who yielded to impulse...
...Herbert L. Spencer, president since 1945, had seen the university double in size, guided it through its centenary, launched a drive intended to bring the $2,000,000 endowment to $10,000,000 and add nine handsome new buildings to the campus. Last March, however, he resigned his post to head the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, and the trustees had been combing a list of men to succeed...
...class and make many of the items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list: a Roy Rogers drinking glass...