Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went doctors' bills, cosmetics, TV repairs, outweighing light " declines in clothing and household appliances. Up above all went the cost of food-bacon by an average 6/ a pound, round steak by 4? and frying chickens by 2?, eggs by 6? a dozen-to climb above its peak (before the farm recession) in August...
...happy niche as a freewheeling outsider in the carefully regulated air transport business. Every other scheduled transatlantic line belongs to the International Air Transport Association, which sets industry-wide fares for one and all. Icelandic is outside I.A.T.A. With its lumbering, low-overhead DC-45, it flies round trip from New York to London for $469.20 (v. $522 for bigger lines), New York to Oslo for $472.20 (v. $590.60). Says Nicholas Craig, president of the line's U.S. subsidiary, which operates the transatlantic business: "For years the airlines have talked about bringing trans-ocean travel within reach of everybody...
Washday Helper. Norge Sales Corp. will soon market an electric timer on two of its top-priced automatic washers that allows housewives to tootle off for the day without worrying about wet wash sitting in the machine for hours. Norge's "Round-the-Clock Timer" can be preset to start the machine anytime up to ten hours after the departing housewife puts in laundry and soap...
...second round the balding apple-knocker from the Yakima Valley let loose a looping right, and it caught the champion, high on the cheek. For four satisfying seconds, the thin crowd in Seattle's Sick's Stadium sensed that it might be getting its money's worth. There was World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson on the canvas. Perhaps this amateur challenger named T. Peter Rademacher had a professional punch after all. It was all so surprising that Referee Tommy Loughran was as flustered as Floyd. He forgot to count...
...there was hardly any art. McEwen flew back to Europe to gather a loan exhibition, only to find that "most of the people I approached on the Continent had never heard of Rhodesia, and those that had saw their cherished treasures hanging in a clearing in the jungle or round the walls of a mud hut." Last week, as a result of McEwen's persistence, his gallery was staging the biggest and best exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings ever assembled south of the Sahara...