Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keating developed many special machines. From his $400,000 research laboratory have come such devices as a wire-former that automatically shapes strainer forms at a clip of 1,500 an hour, a woodworking machine that turns out knife handles in one operation instead of four, a sharpener for potato peeler blades that is so safe and automatic that its operators read the comics while feeding blades into...
...money somehow or other and make himself a rich man. It is at once an uproariously funny story and a sulphuric satire on Russian society. Gogol was able to sound the deepest and most secret of men's motives as surehandedly as a peasant pawing up his potato crop...
...much as 60? for 5 Ibs., or 18 times the price on the tree. And though meat prices were moving down in the stockyards (lamb dropped nearly $2 a hundredweight from a month ago), they were still sky-high at the retail counter. Oddest situation of all was in potatoes, which two years ago were rotting on the ground for lack of buyers. Last week there was a thriving potato black market, due to the short potato crop last year. OPS officials found that housewives were forced to pay 2? to 3? a lb. over ceiling, and sometimes to accept...
From the South, the robed riders of the Klan came over the border of North Carolina on a hot July night in 1950. A column of 30-odd cars carried the Ku Kluxers through tobacco, cotton, peanut and sweet potato fields, then drove slowly along the streets of Tabor City (pop. 2,028), a sleepy Tarheel town that likes to call itself the "yam capital of the world...
Last week, the Government decided to monkey with potatoes again, this time because the price was too high. It had reached more than 105% of parity and OPS Boss Mike Di Salle can control any farm products above parity. He rolled back white potato prices 5% to 26% at farm and wholesale levels and will soon follow with similar rollbacks at retail levels. Potato growers promptly protested. They thought that supply & demand would cure the high prices just as they had the low. Their sensible argument: to cash in on the high prices, potato growers would soon raise so many...