Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corporals & Snow Tires. Today Chairman Firestone is busy diversifying. Once tires were 95% of the business; now they are 60%. The world's biggest producer of natural and synthetic rubber (1,000,000 Ibs. daily), Firestone makes several thousand rubber products, from the tiniest vacuum seal to 4-ft. snow tires for arctic tractors, plus truck-wheel rims, jet-engine parts, Corporal missiles, refrigerators, food mixers, golf clubs, electric clocks, plastic luggage, textile yarns and thousands of other items...
...inaccuracies are disturbingly frequent; the lead article talks about "casting aspirations on"; Sir Hamilton Gibb is mistakenly called a spring term appointment; Alfred North Whitehead was not a University Professor. For the fourth successive year, the ski team's lack of distinction is blamed on lack of snow, despite the fact that there was a record fall this year. The book's polls are almost useless. Only three of them add up to 100% of those polled. One amounts to 121%, one to 97%, two to 96%; one each to 95%, 94%, 93%, 92%, and 91%. In response...
Eighteen thousand Japanese, buzzing with admiration, visited Tokyo's National Museum last week to see the work of an artist who died 450 years ago. Known by his painter name, "Sesshu" (Snow Boat), he is today rated as Japan's greatest landscape artist; his works are valued at up to $250,000 each, and four are classed as "national treasures." So enthusiastic were the crowds that turned out to inspect the 30 Sesshu masterpieces on view that the museum broke precedent, was open on Mondays for the first time since its opening...
...toughened up to hold his own in boyhood brawls on the vacant lots of Brockton, Mass. (pop. 65,000), Rocco Francis Marchegiano had little taste for fighting. He dreamed of big-league baseball, and he grew up to try just about everything else-ditchdigger, dishwasher, candy mixer, truck driver, snow shoveler and, in 1943, soldier. In the Army, Marchegiano discovered that as a soldier he made a good prizefighter. A civilian again, he tried amateur boxing, and did so well that he turned pro in 1947. He changed his name to Rocky Marciano...
Neither Rain nor Snow. In Joliet, Ill., arrested after postal inspectors found eleven bags of parcel-post packages, two cartons and two suitcases full of undelivered letters, cards, newspapers and magazines strewn over the floor of his bedroom, ex-Postman Alvin Timm explained that he had dumped the mail because he is subject to bunions and tires easily...