Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CANNED-FOOD prices are climbing higher because of smaller crops and slim carryover stocks from last year. Green Giant Co., Del Monte, Libby, Dole and other canners have already hiked pineapple prices 4%, asparagus 11%, peas, corn and peaches, plan similar hikes right down the line on many of their products...
Aoki made his headquarters in a cave by the ocean, secretly began rounding up his fellow sufferers and taking them back to his peninsula. There, unnoticed by the islanders, they built crude shelters and lived on food that Aoki bought with his slim funds. His recruits at first spurned his religion, since by Okinawan tradition leprosy was considered an evidence of evil, on the part of either the sufferer or his ancestors. Aoki countered by reciting Christ's absolution of the blind man: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should...
Taft Memorial Foundation offered to erect a monument on the north slope of Capitol Hill-only 600 ft. from the chamber of the U.S. Senate in which Taft served for 14 years. The monument: a slim, shafted marble tower, 100 ft. high, with a carillon of 25 bells and a relief sculpture of the Senator (see cut). The cost (about $1,000,000) would be financed by public donations, and 63 Senators from both parties joined in sponsoring the enabling bill. Wrote the foundation's chairman, ex-President Herbert Hoover: the Taft monument would commemorate "the simplicity and greatness...
Foreign-owned public utilities in Latin America are a chosen prey of nationalizers and a favorite target of Communists. For their troubles most of them earn slim profits. Returns average only 3% a year on investment, compared to 9% for manufacturers and about 20% for oil producers. But now Mexico has launched a new policy to give utilities a break. Reversing the long anti-utility trend, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation...
Today, in the parks, gardens, and public squares of more than a dozen cities in Sweden and the U.S., his works (see color pages) delight thousands with visions drawn out of childhood and classic mythology-glistening, spray-misted glimpses of slim bronzed gods, gamboling mermaids, sea-green babes...