Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the start, Hopital Trousseau "looked sinister"; the head nurse seemed like a heartless virago. Peggy was not allowed her "pretty, rose nightdress," instead got "a veritable sack." Under regulations barring money and jewels, she could not even keep her religious medal. "Pay for eight days," said the cashier. "If she doesn't last that long, you'll get the extra money back." On return visits, Micheline Vernhes had to wait outside the gates, often in the rain; Peggy sobbed hysterically each time her mother had to leave her alone after the brief visiting hours. After eight days...
CORPORATE PROFITS rose 1% in 1957 over 1956, says Manhattan's First National City Bank in survey of 2,474 key companies that account for about one-third of total business earnings. Biggest gainers: tobacco, shoe, drug, steel, and auto companies. Losers: textile, clothing, tire, paper, oil, building-material firms...
...were totally unprepared to produce them. The tanks cracked, some collapsed, and the whole venture became such a fiasco that its director committed suicide. ¶East German experts offered to build water works in the Sudan. Pipes and drills were shipped out, but no water was found, and losses rose to at least 1,500,000 marks. ¶East Germany exported hundreds of tractors to Red China. When the tractors broke down by fleets, it was found that no provision for supplying spare parts had been made. The Chinese angrily called the whole deal...
February auto production totaled 393,000 units, the lowest for any February in six years. Production rose slightly last week from its lowest level of the year, but several plants announced layoffs and cutbacks. Not all companies have been equally affected, but a comparison of 1957 and 1958 production between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22 shows a big drop...
...Partridge in a Pear Tree. In Leeds, England, police were trying to locate Jail Escapee Terence Cutts, 29, who has a flag and an eagle tattooed on his left arm, a heart, a woman's figure and the names "Rose" and "Ruth" on his right arm, a flag and an anchor on the back of his right hand, bluebirds on both thumbs...