Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President continued to plead for party unity by calling the kettle a pot. There is disunity in the Republican Party. He acknowledged that some Republicans think Idaho's Senator Henry Dworshak is too conservative. "But what are you going to do? Elect that cowboy (former Democratic Senator Glen Taylor) instead?" He granted that other Republicans believe that New Jersey's Senate Nominee Clifford Case is too liberal, "but we've got to get 48 votes in the Senate. Let's get that into our heads...
...troubled days following Strong Man Getulio Vargas' suicide, Brazil's outlawed Communists tried hard to keep the pot boiling. But new President João Café Filho was ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...
Virtually every one has turned into a pot of gold for Wolfson. He and a group of friends bought control of Washington's Capital Transit for $20 a share, have since paid themselves about $30 a share in dividends, much of it from an accumulated surplus. By going after contracts aggressively, Wolfson boosted Merritt-Chapman's gross from $33 million in 1948 to $70 million in 1953. Dividends have gone up even faster, from an average of 51? a share in the four years before Wolfson took over to an average of $1.73 in the four years since...
...find the answers, President Eisenhower asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the entire industry both at home and abroad. FTC's conclusion: the trouble is the way coffee is marketed all along the line, from plantation to pot (TIME, Aug. 9). The No. 1 offender, said FTC in its 1,000-page report, was Brazil, the world's biggest coffee producer and biggest U.S. supplier, with exports last year of 8,970,439 bags (43% of the U.S. total) worth $628 million. In effect, FTC charged Brazil's coffee industry with manipulating the market through misleading...
...bullet entered the residence of Henry Potter, South H Street ... It passed through a north window of the kitchen, showering bits of glass upon a paper which Mr. Potter was reading and into the hair of a child he was holding on his lap, then struck an iron pot standing on the stove at which Mrs. Potter was cooking, when it fell flattened into a pan in which a beefsteak was being cooked . . . Where the bullet came from was a mystery, and the Potter family hope that no one is angry at them...