Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Statistics reported last week that its Consumer Price Index (1947-49 = 100) jumped sharply (.4%) between April and May to match the alltime high of 115.4 set in October 1953. Main reason: a substantial increase in the cost of food, largely because of the upswing in beef, pork and potato prices. Main result: a 1?-an-hour wage increase for more than 100,000 workers whose pay is geared to the index. Government forecasters, with an eye toward possible wage and price increases in the steel industry (see below), expect the index to go on rising even higher...
Ucureña is rapidly trading in its old reputation as a center of radical ferment for new fame as a high producer of wheat and potatoes. Last week, after unseasonal frosts had ruined the potato crops in the 12,000-ft. highlands, Ucureña easily supplied an extra 200 tons of top-quality seed potatoes to plant an out-of-season crop in the lower valleys. Black-haired José Rojas, now 43, and Moon are mutual admirers, and Rojas refuses even to comment on the bad old days when he was anti-U.S. "Instead...
rich cream sauce ladled on for the other guests), bypassed his baked potato, nibbled at an unbuttered green vegetable, and talked to his photographer dinner companions on subjects ranging from painting to golf. Later, when the lights were turned low in the vast ballroom, the President settled back to enjoy the entertainment, rocked with laughter at the quips of Comedian Bob Hope, returned the jaunty wave of Negro Songstress Pearl Bailey. When it was time to leave, he took a few strides in the wrong direction, spun, and walked from the room so rapidly that the Secret Service...
...West German Plant Conservation Service at Kiel and the Soviet zone's Central Biological Office together maintain irrigation works that straddle the border, wage joint war against animal epidemics and that old enemy of German agriculture, the potato...
...critics' recognition (TIME, July 26, 1954), who says: "A bottle is a bottle, and it's quite different from a cucumber. I want to get this across." An admiring critic found in his bold brush strokes "a passion reminiscent of Van Gogh's during his Potato Eaters period...