Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe winners are Elizabeth L. Gallaher, France, and Elizabeth A. H. Salmon, France...
...Ministry called a halt to the point system. Formerly, a housewife had to decide how to divide her points between canned fish and fruit, molasses, rice, jellies, mincemeat and other delicacies. "Thank heaven," gasped one housewife, "I don't have to toss up between a tin of salmon and a tin of syrup any more. What a relief...
Reforestation was now a well-developed technique. Big companies like Weyerhaeuser collected tons of fir seed, cleaned it with special machinery and planted it as carefully as farmers planting cabbage. The industry made pulp, plywood and innumerable new products. But like Puget Sound's fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners, it was tapping an exhaustible commodity-neither industry could expand beyond certain rigid limits without inviting disaster...
...Pendleton, Ore. had a country club whose dues were only $6 a month for a family, and its membership included a bakery driver, a farm-implement clerk and two gas-station grease monkeys. This was still unusual, but almost anyone in the Northwest could ski or fish for salmon practically at his front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity the unfortunate people "back east"-i.e., all who live between Butte...
Chrysler had lost production of 347,000 automobiles and trucks during the nine weeks. And still the negotiators bargained in the Federal Conciliator's salmon-pink Sheraton Hotel room. The union's demands: an increase of 10? an hour to provide "adequate" monthly pensions and insurance benefits. Two weeks ago management offered a $30 million pension fund to pay $100 a month (including social security) on retirement at 65 or over. It insisted its plan promised more than United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther had asked for. Reuther spurned the company's offer as "fancy bookkeeping...