Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Ghaziabad (pop. 50,000), near Delhi, dark Kali reasserted herself through a dirt-poor street sweeper. Hari Singh came home one day to find that his two pigs had wandered off and were locked up in the pound. He had no money to redeem them. That night as he slept, Black Kali came to him in a dream and told him what he must do to get his pigs back. The next...
Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...
...issue of the magazine with a pair of Chicago men's-wear trade publishers named David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub. For $200 a throw, he got short stories and articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows of Kilimanjaro), served up the cheesecake of Artist George Petty as dessert. Despite the 50? price tag, fashion-plating Esquire boomed to a circulation of 625,000 in 1937. Chortled Publisher Smart: "Why didn...
...much rumored Chevrolet "small car," expected out by late 1959. Last week newsmen pried out the first official word from Chevy General Manager Edward N. Cole about a Chevy small car. Chevy has bought tools and dies. "But," Cole stressed, "that does not mean that we will purchase one pound of productive material to run over those tools and dies." Chevy can scrap its plans as late as next summer, if the small-car market cools. Chevy's dropping of the Delray also gives plenty of room to other companies' low-price cars to scramble...
Containing this passing potential will be the Crimson's main chore this afternoon, but it will also have to be on the lookout for Skypeck running off the option and for the powerful rushes of 190-pound Phil Taylor, one of Cornell's leading ground-gainers last fall...