Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth of scholarships contributed by business firms, and are constantly surrounded by ulcerescent chaperons, without whom they may not speak to any man, "including male members of their own families." Explained Hostess Chairman Mrs. John M. Alton: "Why, we had one father who was the handsomest thing you ever saw. If his" daughter had been seen with him alone, people might have thought anything...
...programers had promised for the new season were the "fantastics." CBS beat the drums for weeks over The World of Giants, a projected series about a man shrunk to 6-in. size by an accidental burst of radiation. Loudly sung but unsold WOG died before its tiny hero saw an electronic screen. Only fantastic now left on the CBS books: H. G. Wells s familiar old Invisible...
Anxious to test the tablets scientifically, Wright rushed back to England to find volunteer couples willing to risk pregnancy with only the tablets for insurance. Later they would undertake pregnancy as a countertest, get full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way after newspaper stories drew 80 Birmingham couples for a similar test financed by one Captain Oliver Bird, 78, of Bird's Custard. Wright sent a carefully worded ad to the London Daily Telegraph, which rejected it with a pun: "The conception is distasteful to us." With little hope...
...speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing down. But in June it also became plain that the recession had hit bottom and the FRB might have to tighten credit. Bond buyers saw the promise of higher interest ahead and dumped their holdings. The speculative bubble burst. As prices fell, the yields reached as high as 3! on Government bonds. The Government bond market turned so weak that when the Treasury floated a $16.3 billion issue of one-year certificates...
...Nobody Saw. Planes flew high overhead or off to the side of the square miles of human flotsam, but nobody was looking for Indy survivors, and for 84 hours nobody saw them. When they were spotted, it was by accident. Then rescue measures were swift and effective-the one aspect of the disaster that was a credit to the Navy. But only 316 (15 officers, 301 enlisted men, from a total complement of 1,196) survived...