Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America loan that provided Willys do Brasil's working capital. But it is due as well to enthusiastic Brazilians who decided that they could switch successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled at a six-a-day clip and learning that Brazil had no parts suppliers, dismissed the manufacturing project with the blunt comment: "You're nuts...
...Essex Register of Salem, Mass., in an item from Boston dated July 10. 1817, reported (using a sometime spelling of the painter's name): "Early the last three mornings, previous to his departure, the President has had sittings at Mr. Stewart's room." The Newburyport Herald later shed more light on the trouble a President would take to reach a painter in that era: ";A few days after the arrival of Mr. Monroe in Boston, he went out early one morning in his carriage to sit for his portrait to Mr. Stuart. Not knowing his dwelling, he stopped...
...farmers hauling produce, old women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
Swedes practice nudism with erotic grace, the French with gay abandon; British nudists even manage to shed the stiff upper lip. Among West Germans, unzipping has become a solemn Teutonic cult whose practitioners rarely even wear a smile. Banned by the Nazis as "one of the greatest dangers to German morality and culture.'' nudism has enjoyed a spectacular boom since the end of World War II. As prosperous Germans have been able to afford more and better clothes, they yearned all the more to take them off-except, of course, in austerely Communist East Germany, where even collective...
Other housing specialists expect a slowdown for a few years, then a surge in demand for apartments, as the big generation of World War II babies grows up, marries and moves in. Buyers and renters need shed few tears for the builders, who continue to earn a pretax return of 30% to 40% on invested capital. "The smart builder is still making a good profit," says Washington, D.C., Housing Consultant Robinson Newcomb: "It's only getting a little harder to become a millionaire...