Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their lapels. Editor Scott ran an expose of shyster used-car dealers that put the worst offender out of business, followed up with a story on a bogus real estate firm that led to three indictments for fraud. He front-paged an account of Vancouver's skid-row bread line, side by side with a Canadian Press story saying that Kraft Foods Ltd. blamed the high cost of food on the consumer demand for fancy preparation. Even Publisher Crornie did not get off Scott-free. The Sun ran a three-part analysis of Vancouver's faltering Community Chest...
...football season is over down at Princeton and the fellows have set aside their childish things. The black and orange pennants are safely tacked over the mantle, the silver steins glisten in a row, and lights burn late as the chill dusk gathers in across the rolling lawns. Happy thoughts of golden autumn weekends linger, but the mood is one of manly anticipation: Bicker, once again, draws high...
...consumer price index leveled out last summer, even slipped downward a little in August under the delayed drag of the recession. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in October the ups and downs averaged out and the index held steady for the second month in a row at the August level of 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). Up: new cars, women's and girls' clothing, rents, medical care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, poultry (lowest level since December...
...since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had the stock market taken such a blow. After setting new highs each, week for three weeks in a row, the market started down at the week's opening. While the ticker ran late for more than two hours of the 5½ hours of trading, 1,040 of the 1,287 issues traded suffered losses ranging from 5 to 42 points. It was the second largest number of issues traded in one day in stock exchange history (largest: 1,290 issues...
...traditional sport; it is contained within the multitudes of the meaning of Harvard. And besides, it has an overwhelming reserve of alumni financial support. All of which does to prove, of course, that the University has learned that it's easier to ski down a hill than to row up a hill against the current...