Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week British drug manufacturers began withdrawing vitamin stocks worth-tens of thousands of dollars from stores all over Britain. Customers besieged druggists with half-consumed bottles of oil and pills, most of them bought with the taxpayers' money by Britain's National Health Service, demanding fresh merchandise...
"Information for Settlers," says the sign over a door of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation headquarters in fast-growing little Ephrata, Wash. (1950 pop. 4,584). The word settlers, as used there, is no nostalgic recall of old frontier days. Inside the door sit the 1951 settlers themselves, sun-weathered...
Tens of thousands have written to thank us. From Hammond, Ind.: "I, with millions of others, consider the television of the crime investigation one of the greatest contributions to the people of America as a whole that has ever taken place."
For years past, the armies of ragged, hungry men had come from all over Mexico, up the highways and the railroads, on foot under the burning sun. Drawn by the hope of the Yankee dollar, they swarmed to the border by the tens of faceless thousands. They milled briefly amid...
Specialist. In Mobile, Ala., a gunman held up Mrs. Harold Matthews in her husband's grocery, took all her one-dollar bills, left the fives, tens, twenties.