Word: pud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panama Canal Zone, scene of modern medicine's victory over malaria, has reported 67 cases since June 1. Partly explained by a drought that has turned lakes into shallow, mosquito-breeding pud-dies, the outbreak is largely due to changes in control measures in surrounding Republic of Panama. ¶ Britain, which allows narcotics addicts to receive small maintenance doses legally and cheaply, reported only 333 known addicts. Medical professions supplied a whopping 30% of them: 77 doctors, 20 nurses, two dentists...
...Pacific Power & Light Co. has signed deal with Washington State's Cowlitz County Public Utility District to develop Upper Lewis River in $56.7 million project to produce 256,500 kw. by 1958. Pacific Power & Light will build and own main dam and powerhouse producing 189,000 kw., while PUD will spend $15 million on smaller, 67,500-kw. downstream powerhouse, get 26% of overall power produced...
...million Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River. Last obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...
...framework Moore has ample room for a portrayal which will be remembered for some time to come. The part is there and that's all he needs. Moore is supported by Beulah Bondi as the grandmother, Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Brink, and David John Stellery as the boy, Pud. I found Miss Bondi's performance especially touching, but the others were certainly commendable...
...uncover fresh lore about the quaint folkways of old Frank Hague and his crumbled Hudson County political barony. Last week Auditor Sternkopf announced happily that he had tracked down full details of one of the most significant rituals of Boss Hague's time-an institution known as "Rice Pud ding...