Word: quart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week family budgets across the U.S. began to feel the impact. In Seattle barbers boosted haircut prices 25? (to $[.75). In Detroit the board of education warned that hot meals would cost the city's 272,000 schoolchildren 2? more this fall. Milk prices rose a penny a quart in Des Moines; bread jumped 2? a loaf in San Francisco. Diamonds were up 10% in Dallas. Clothing in some areas is going up 71%. Food also is expected to go higher, largely as a result of higher handling costs. Said a Memphis executive: "We're paying more...
Deliberate food adulteration is relatively easy to detect−watering of oysters and butter, injection of as much as a quart of water into fresh-killed turkeys just before freezing. The FDA concedes that there is no such thing as a perfectly clean food. But it is forever inching toward the impossible goal. Up to now, two pellets of rodent excrement in a pint of wheat have been permitted. This week a new and tougher rule went into effect: only one pellet per pint...
...week's end was the question whether any law or regulation had been violated by the shipment from Parke, Davis & Co. to Johns Hopkins. One thing was certain: from now on, airline pilots will want to know about it whenever they carry anything as dangerous as a ten-quart jug of polio virus. Captain Tappe's cargo was the Mahoney strain of virus, which causes most paralysis...
...Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...government spending. Items: cutbacks in construction programs for nationalized railroads and coal mines, delay in school building. To save another $106 million, he cut the government subsidy on bread and milk. Result will be to make British housewives pay one penny more for each loaf of bread and quart of milk. "Inflation must be mastered if our personal lives are not to be darkened by continual anxiety and uncertainty, and our country's position in the world seriously undermined," he warned...