Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larkins are seasonal strawberry pickers, and their way of life might be called Rabelaissezfaire. When Pop vents his heroic belches, he sounds like Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only...
...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
...Adolfo bought the Alfieri Maserati firm, then financially foundering, as an addition to his scrap-iron and farm-implement businesses, later used the plant as the base of a new machine-tool business. Racing cars were only the frosting on the cake to give the tools a famous name. By last year the combination was bringing in $3,000,000 annually. But along with the cash came trouble...
...zero. And that also left the nation's security against chaos-by-disability resting solely upon the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement, which Mister Sam derides, with the prestige he has piled up in 45 years in the House and 13 years as Speaker, as little more than a scrap of paper...
AUTO UNION is tempering demands as dealers' car inventories continue to rise. U.A.W. wants to boost its average $2.46 hourly wage rate by 10?; pace-setting General Motors has offered 6?. Union also will ask for bigger layoff, pension and health benefits, but will probably scrap its demand for profit sharing if G.M. agrees to more pay for shorter week...