Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby's crib that is actually 55 ft. long, doing cartwheels on a top hat that is 16 ft. high. There are some fairly funny sight gags, too. When Tom slides down a rope into the royal treasury, the first thing he sees is a potato sack with a gleaming label on it: GOLD. Jaw dropping, he turns to the next sack. The label reads: MORE GOLD. Best of all, there are two of the most ludicrously sinister villains (Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers) who ever took sneering lessons...
...Kremlin's new plans, which also include closing down unprofitable coal mines at Zwickau, cutting output of machine tools that Russia now produces, curtailing expansion of the ill-placed Stalinstadt steel works, building a merchant marine for Red China, and collectivizing more potato lands, spell harsh new shutdowns and uprootings for the East Germans. Nonetheless, it is a complete reversal of Russia's postwar practice of ripping up railroads, carrying off generators and machine tools...
...edition since. Supported by the Quemoy Military Defense Command, the seven-days-a-week paper reserves most of its run-5,500 copies-for free distribution to troops, sells the balance (at 1? a copy, 25? a month) to villagers in Quemoy, oyster fishermen in North Mountain, sweet potato and millet farmers in South Mountain. About $250 in monthly advertising revenue comes from Formosa merchants eager to fill front-line mail orders...
Nelson Rockefeller owns three farms in Venezuela and will vacation in his hilltop hacienda-a white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself...
There beside the whisper of the surf, Oopa, who was once a fried-potato vendor and then a carpenter, roared like a Paris Assemblyman. Under the slogan, "Tahiti for the Tahitians; Frenchmen into the sea!", Oopa's Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People swept last year's elections, and Oopa, 63, became Premier of Polynesia. Oopa accused the French of allowing the islands' copra-and-phosphate economy to stagnate in the face of a population explosion that has doubled the population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated...