Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skinny frame burned to leather by the sun. But Redron's eye lights up when he speaks of what it means to his country: "Just wait till we get the first oil to France. To help us celebrate, I'll get the Paris office to send us the Blue Bell girls from the Lido...
...instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about 80?) for each gram of the metal as it came from the pan. The rush to cash in nearly demolished the office. Within half an hour, the agency's 5,500,000 francs were gone, and it had to send a hurry call to Paris for more. By last week, more than 125,000 grams of gold had been sent to France. During one month alone, the government had paid out more than 22 million French African francs to Kaka and Baya tribesmen bringing in gold dust in penicillin bottles...
When Congress last year ordered the Agriculture Department to subsidize cotton exports and thus cut the mounting surplus. Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson hoped to send possibly 5,000,000 bales overseas this year, more than twice 1956 exports. Last week Agriculture officials totaled up the figures and announced that the program had succeeded far beyond Secretary Benson's prediction. At a cost of $442 million in subsidies, the U.S. will have exported 7,500,000 bales by Aug. 1, the highest since 1933. But before anyone could cheer, the Agriculture Department also warned that the export program...
...that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly dug for the customary reward of some snout (tobacco), four prisoners perform a final act reminiscent of the division of spoils on Calvary long ago. It is the prison custom not to send on the condemned man's last letters, but to bury them with him. As they are dropped in the grave, the prisoners grab for them. "Give us them bloody letters," says one. "They're worth money to one of the Sunday papers...
True Love. In Brisbane, Australia, organizers of the Royal National Show, the annual state fair, received a letter from an exhibitor: "Please send me a fresh check for the prize money won by my goat. When I was showing the last check to the goat...