Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Song of Socialism." When Goldwater rose to make his anti-Eisenhower speech in an almost empty Senate chamber last week, he pulled out most of the stops that conservative Republican orators had pulled in 20 years of speeches against Democratic Administrations. For the first four years, he said, the Eisenhower Administration had made progress toward the goals of economy and efficiency enunciated in 1952. Now he feared it had been gripped by some "strange and mysterious force," had been lured by the "siren song of socialism," was tending toward "squanderbust government . . . economic inebriation . . . bloated government...
...last flat light tipped the orange trees and spacious rose gardens, a car swung off the main road from Rabat and up the long drive to the big, Norman-style royal villa. His Majesty Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco, stepped out just as two cannon shots sounded through the still twilight air, signaling sunset and the end of Ramadan's day-long fast...
FAIRBANKS, MORSE PROFITS are rising fast, says company in reply to Director Leopold Silberstein, who is driving to take over heavy-equipment maker on charges that its earnings, management are poor. Although sales rose only 4%, F-M's first-quarter profits hit $660,507 v $200,271 in January-March of 1956, thanks to "a more realistic pricing policy, and realization of some heavy investments made in plant...
Currently, Perkins spends $250,000 a year in the hunt for new roses (and $1,800,000 on ads and other promotion), employs a top geneticist, Eugene S. Boerner, as his chief hybridizer. Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing. From some 250,000 plants nursed along to the bloom stage, less than half a dozen new ones are selected each year to go into J. & P.'s catalogue. A single rose may cost $50,000 to develop, but royalties on a single rose have hit $500,000, so, says...
...TOWERS OF TREBIZOND (277 pp.)-Rose Macaulay-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...