Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last fall Britain devalued the pound, the gold crisis agitated the world-and so did the first human-heart transplant...
...weighing the possibility of distilling the excess fruit into schnapps. Germany's Butterberg problem is even more serious. Nearly 30% of the profits of German farming comes from milk products. Common Market regulations allow the government to support the price of butter at the 75-cents-a-pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must buy all the milk a farmer delivers, then pass on the surplus butter to the government stockpile at the minimum price. Such assurances have made the German farmer even more attached to his cow. Fed now with enriched fodder, notably U.S. soybeans...
...invitation to an all-day luau with David Susskind in Pound Ridge, New York. Five letters this week from personal managers wanting to manage my career. Three marriage proposals. Plus about 20 invitations to parties...
...badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel had mysteriously acquired the doctor's address en route. In Los Angeles, a couple delightedly opened a two-pound box of Dutch chocolates, only to find a soupy goo inside. Their gift had languished for six months in a local postal warehouse before delivery...
...every other day. Half of the time they got FMS; the rest of the time they got salt solution. In the salt periods they lost only an average of 81 grams (less than 3 oz.) per day, while on FMS they lost 231 grams or just over half a pound...