Word: switchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switcher," who puts quality butter (60? a lb.) in the oleo box (30? a lb.). Another switcher trick: she partially empties a potato-chip tin, hides meat and other items in the bottom...
...Mexico by the Export-Import Bank in 1950 to cover a variety of projects. One of the Mexican railroad systems' biggest problems is a lack of engines to haul its rolling stock, so about half the money will be used to buy diesel locomotives, both road and switcher types. Most of the remaining cash will be spent on rails, switches, communication equipment and electrical supplies...
Died. Yvonne Faith ("Cutest Little Nudist") Bacon, fiftyish, platinum blonde onetime hip-switcher (Earl Carroll's Vanities, 1930), who once danced in a costume of leaves which a trained fawn consumed as she wiggled, later claimed she invented the fan dance, sued Sally Rand for $375,000 for stealing the idea; after a jump from a hotel window when she failed to get a strip-joint job; in Chicago...
...mixture of dutiful politeness and a country man's caution. But he can also rise to an occasion. Last month he was presented to the Duke of Windsor, who had just watched the Yankees for the first time in his life. The duke wanted "particularly to meet that switcher fellow...