Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tokyo announced that Wall Street Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey will be retained for a year to help Japan boost its exports and ride herd on Japan's commercial interests in the U.S. Fee (including Dewey's anticipated expense account): $200,000. But someone had goofed. Next day, after Dewey's office issued a firm "no comment," Japan's government allowed that the deal is not sealed as yet. Premature publicity may have doomed...
...Most steep waves are low enough, they say, to be passed over easily. High waves are usually long and gradual; they can be surmounted like a series of hills. Hovercraft can be designed with a seaworthy hull. In the worst storms they could drop down into the water and ride out the storm like any other vessel...
When lectures came on Saturdays-during which Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, ride in a vehicle or talk on the phone-Abe would have a friend put a sheet of carbon paper under his lecture notes and hope he remembered to use a ballpoint pen. Sabbath restrictions begin on Friday night, just before sundown, and on occasional Fridays only a lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow...
Although many private brands sell at lower prices, they are really a long-range detriment to the consumer, charges Henry Abt, president of the Brand Names Foundation. Says he: "Private labels ride the coattails of makers' brands. No private label past or present has ever pioneered a new product or improved an existing one." National food brands last year spent $105 million on research and development of new products and $476 million to advertise them. An estimated 33? of every dollar spent in supermarkets goes into products that did not exist ten years...
...tour of Walt's kiddie wonderland that will take in his model of the Matterhorn. a bobsled ride, a ride on a monorail, and the park's newest gimmick: a "Submarine Voyage Beneath the Seven Seas...