Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young artists are to follow the advice of Father Edward M. Catich in giving "Christ a shave and a haircut," and "defeminize Christ, return his trousers, restore his masculinity" [Nov. 24], it follows that we should also put Christ in a Chrysler ("God is my Auto-Pilot"). Also, since Christ was a carpenter, we could put him in good standing with the A.F. of L. and C.I.O...
...millions of bushels of corn raised outside his acreage-restriction programs. And he has muddied debate by underwriting such feeble steps as 1956's since-discarded acreage-reserve provisions of the soil bank and his new, too-little, too-late corn program, which, by abandoning production curbs in return for a very modest decrease in corn price supports, threatens to bring on a bigger corn glut than ever...
...FEUD is splitting the bathroom-fixture family. Nephew Walter J. Kohler Jr., onetime (1951-57) Governor of Wisconsin, charges he lost $214,156 when he sold his Kohler Co. stock to company in 1953, says that Kohler Co. gave "untrue statements" about its real value; he is suing for return of money. But Uncle Herbert Kohler, boss of company, says Walter was just an unknowing seller, should have asked the right questions before he sold...
...natural-gas industry, the news was so cheery that it sent gas stocks up as much as 5¼ points. In a 5-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the year-old "Memphis case'' ruling of a lower court, thus allowing gas companies to return to their longtime practice of raising rates while waiting for the Federal Power Commission to approve them-subject to refund if the request is turned down. The Memphis case, which was won by the city of Memphis against the United Gas Pipeline Co., was opposed by the FPC as well...
...business of mankind. His heroines (or victims) are a widowed mother and her daughter trying to find a quiet place to sit out the war. They are ill-used in turn by fellow countrymen so rude and crude that only a fellow Italian would dare describe them. Finally they return to Rome with wounds deeper than those they thought to escape...