Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lodwick, on a mission to Pakistan, saw ghee being made, heard that there was a great shortage of it. Since then U.S. dairies have worked on the problem, samples have been sent to Pakistan, endless embassy discussions have been held. Pakistan is willing to pay 42? a delivered pound, a loss to the U.S. of about 28? a pound. Although the U.S.-owned butter is now in cold storage, it may eventually spoil, and the Government will lose the 64? it paid for the average pound. There is no problem in storing ghee. In fact, some tasty Indian ghee...
...motto, according to one witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...
...Choate Club received the Roscoe Pound Prize for the best all-round second year record...
...Land. In Cambridge, Ill., Farmer M. C. Samuelson complained to the Henry County state's attorney that after he left a signed blank check with his order for a pound of butter, Milkman Robert Fowler picked up the check, blithely made it out to himself...
...middleweight champion of the world, the best fighter, pound for pound, in the modern prize ring. And he was smart enough to see what was happening that summer night in 1951 when Britain's Randy Turpin swarmed all over him to take a clear-cut, 15-round decision...