Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patch." Through most of their history, Newfoundlanders have not had much more than these basic needs. They went out to the grounds and fished for cod. Some of the cod they ate themselves, with "crunchin's" of pork and potatoes. The rest they sold for cash to buy sugar, tea, wool for their homespun clothes, and an occasional keg of "screech" (Newfie...
...Charles Mott, a director of General Motors since 1913, chairman of the board of U.S. Sugar Corp. and member of innumerable organizations (e.g., American Legion, United Spanish War Veterans, Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Elks, Moose, Masons), still works hard at his goal. He pops into his paneled office every working day, keeps it filled with fresh flowers and humming with fresh ideas. Recently he helped build four new schools, especially designed with auditoriums and gymnasiums which the whole town can use. "We must build back to community activities," says Mott, "to get people to know their neighbors and bring about...
...early scenes in Paris. Screen Writer Casey Robinson describes the script as "one-third Hemingway, one-third Zanuck and one-third myself"-a dilution of talent that probably accounts for the pat, happy ending, the atmosphere of whining self-pity, and the resolute backing away from any issues except sugar-coated love...
Since Fowler, a lawyer who has spent most of his time in Government bureaus since 1934, is no production man, the obvious implication was that the arms program is now self-propelled. Steelman issued some sugar-coated figures that seemed to say so. Reported Steelman: "Total military hard-goods deliveries in June reached $2 billion-doubling that of nine months earlier...
...Honolulu Middleweight Carl ("Bobo") Olson, a technical knockout, after six rounds of a scheduled ten-round bout with The Bronx's badly outclassed Gene Hairston; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. At ringside: Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, displaying a surgically rebuilt nose and a lack of interest in a future match with Olson, who is the probable heir to Robinson's crown-if Sugar Ray retires without defending...