Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in G.U.M.'s polished interiors (which can hold 20,000 people), workmen were putting the finishing touches to nearly two miles of counters, to snack bars, post offices and a special "nursing room." Soon the shabby housewives of Moscow will pour in, carrying the brown shopping nets which are standard through all Russia. They will be attracted by G.U.M.'s huge ads: "Whatever the Stomach, Body, or Mind demand, G.U.M. will supply," by the government's elaborate promises of a new "Abundance," and by an elemental canniness that has taught them to get in early...
British investment in Canada, which slowed to a trickle after World War II. is rising again. Ontario's Minister of Planning and Development William Warrender, home from a tour of Britain, predicted last week that United Kingdom businessmen would pour as much as $150 million into Canadian industries next year, more than quadrupling their 1953 rate of investment...
...outside of the liquor business. In the four years since Bierwirth became president, National has put $82 million into the chemical industry. The Tuscola petrochemical plant, owned jointly with Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., is its biggest chemical investment to date. From natural gas, the plant each year will pour out 20% of the nation's supply of synthetic alcohol, used in hundreds of products ranging from synthetic rubber and explosives to photographic film and DDT; 200 million lbs. of ethylene; 50 million Ibs. of ethyl chloride, for tetraethyl lead in high-octane aviation gasoline; 140,000 tons...
Biographer Jones believes that, far from realizing that he was "rapidly becoming a public menace," Freud merely thought of his fondness for cocaine as a sort of hobby. But when cases of cocaine poisoning and addiction began to pour in, Freud's hobby made him the center of a scandal. His colleagues were further scandalized when, under the influence of France's Charcot, Freud became an ardent supporter of hypnotism...
...help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...