Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after Vargas had promised to roll back food prices, living costs had climbed 30%, and 250,000 Sao Paulo workers quit their factories in hunger-sparked strikes. Even in the midst of a record coffee boom, Vargas' erratic economic policies weakened the currency, drained the treasury, piled up nearly a $2 billion deficit in overseas trade, and almost pricepegged Brazil's No. 1 product out of the U.S. coffee market. Driving desperately to win back working-class support for the 1954 congressional elections. Vargas recently doubled Brazil's minimum wage, despite ominous growls by the army...
...announce the session's last roll-call vote in the House, Speaker Martin pounded a shattering, bell-ringing gavel, and the House burst into roars of laughter. Then at 7:38 Friday evening, page boys who gathered around the Speaker's dais threw paper into the air as Martin rapped the House into adjournment until next January...
...Rome, Egypt's ex-King Farouk interrupted his leering and prancing long enough to roll into a fashionable nightclub, where he drew up a chair beside an old Manhattan cabaret songstress named Spivy, bellowed duets with her for an hour and topped off the act with a Swiss yodeling version of Don't Fence Me In. Spivy's impression of Farouk's yodeling: "Squeaking in a high falsetto...
TITANIUM production should soon roll ahead. To boost output and lower prices (now $15 a lb.), the Eisenhower Administration authorized five year tax write-offs (v. the usual 25 years) for new plants that turn out finished titanium...
...home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed the promise of commotional doings...