Word: tinier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Togoland is a hot, humid and tiny country, 75 miles wide and 330 miles long, named by the Germans, given to the French under a U.N. trusteeship, and stuck like an afterthought on the map of Africa, between Ghana and the even tinier French territory of Dahomey. Of all French African territories, it is closest to independence. At the same time, it has seemed closest to France. Since 1956 the government has been safely in the hands of Premier Nicolas Grunitzky, a naturalized French citizen and member of the French National Assembly. The boss of the ruling political party...
...first network edition of Susan's Show over 69 stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember," she reminded her mother before air time, "it's just another show"), she mulled over homework in an oversized kitchen (to make her look even tinier than her 4 ft. 9 in.), and with her cairn terrier, Rusty, climbed aboard her -magic chair and soared through the air to Wonderville with much the same success as Judy Garland heading...
...Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug a 7-oz. "ladies'-size" Budweiser bottle...
...French economy in 1953 is stuck between feudalism and anarchy. Potentially. France is the richest farm country in Europe, yet she imports $200 million more food than she exports. Her farms are tinier and less economical than they were in 1930. French industry seems to operate on an inverted system of Malthusianism, holding down production to keep pace with the population. When demand falls off. firms cut their output, instead of reducing prices to stimulate the market...
Meet the Press. From the, moment she stepped down the ramp from a Royal Canadian Air Force DC-4M at Washington's National Airport, it became apparent that newspaper pictures had never done justice to Elizabeth's delicate coloring or warm smile. She was both tinier and prettier than most who saw her had guessed. But it was quickly apparent, too, that she was a hardworking, quietly tense-and extremely enduring-young woman, engaged in a nervous and difficult task...