Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...related, a hard-pressed correspondent, described a battlefield littered with "passed-on mules." When it comes to profit, the Monitor has netted only $260 in the past 15 years; it firmly excludes a long list of advertisers it does not condone (e.g., whiskies, tobacco, patent medicines, coffee, tea) and refuses to run any ad containing the abbreviation "Xmas...
...inflation that lies at the root of Britain's economic difficulties. Early last week the Times of London gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan high marks for "coolly and firmly backing a courageous Chancellor of the Exchequer." But even as subscribers were reading these flattering words over their morning tea, Peter Thorneycroft had ceased to be Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Empire, and, thanks to the new spirit of equality, enjoy far pleasanter relations with their Indian colleagues. As for the Indians themselves, they show surprisingly little resentment of the fact that Britons still control 80% of all foreign investments in India, own a majority (64%) of India's tea industry and a quarter of the vital jute industry. Given the choice, say Indian public-opinion surveys, more Indians would choose to visit England than any other place on earth...
...Circuit Court of Appeals; in Danville, Ill. Appointed a district judge in 1922, Republican Lindley in 1939 imposed $20,000 in fines and court costs of more than half a million on General Motors and three subsidiaries for antitrust violations, seven years later found the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and subsidiaries guilty of conspiring to monopolize part of the nation's food business...
...think how this very line, this very word, which I am writing represents money, I am lost in a respectful astonishment...I am paid sixpence per line. With [these last 67 words] I can buy a loaf, a piece of butter, a jug of milk, a modicum of tea-actually enough to make breakfast for the family." Such digressions helped to conceal the sweat and effort that Thackeray put into his work. "I can see him pointing now with his finger," wrote his daughter Anny, "to two or three little words. Sometimes he would show us a few lines...