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Word: sold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denison, Texas, where his father, David Eisenhower, was a railroad-yard mechanic, Dwight was brought to Abilene at the age of two. The family was never well off?David Eisenhower rarely earned more than $100 a month?and the six boys worked hard to help out. Dwight sold vegetables grown on his family's three acres and stoked furnaces at the Belle Springs Creamery, where, at 19, he became night foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: EISENHOWER: SOLDIER OF PEACE | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Lincoln Fiberglass Inc. has found that the Coop has a most sporting clientele. Last year the Coop sold more of the company's fiberglass sailboats than any comparable store in the Boston area, explained department manager Roscoe W. Fitts Jr. This year they hope to launch their canoe among the Cambridge outdoorsy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiawatha by the Charles | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

Money Witness. Baring-Gould's literary detective work is clearly intended for confirmed Nero Wolfe fans. Since Wolfe books have sold an average of 20,000 copies each in hard-cover and there are 12 million of them in print in paperback, that makes for quite a sizable group. Still, not everybody can be interested in such minutiae as the diameter of the globe in Wolfe's office (32⅜") and the derivation of his special breed of albino orchids (from Paphiopedilurn lawrenceanum hyeanum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Holmes | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...drawn thousands of screaming kids at The Boston Garden, singing such songs as "Little Red Rooster," a song sung by the Mississippi-origined bluesman, Howlin' Wolf, many years before. The Yardbirds had cut an album with the late blues harmonica player from Mississippi, Sonny Boy Williamson. The album sold well -- to the many, many Yardbirds fans...

Author: By Tom Guralnick, | Title: Chicago Blues Allstars | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...success. And while in concert, they play the same beautiful blues that they obviously choose to play, in the recording studio they are asked to play a cheap, "psychedelicized" blues as on Muddy's latest "Electric Mud" album. The album (like Wolf's latest psychedelic Wolf album) has sold well. And it becomes harder and harder to keep the bues alive...

Author: By Tom Guralnick, | Title: Chicago Blues Allstars | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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