Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world where much is unknowable, Frost takes refuge in what is knowable, matter-of-fact and practical. "It's knowing what to do with things that counts." One of his favorite books is Robinson Crusoe : "I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limit less." For himself, Frost asks a wall against intrusion of knowledge, or people, a fence "between too much and me." What is beyond those fences, says Frost, is no man's business. It is "the canyon of Ceasing to Question What Doesn't Concern...
...tough on all the others." She likes to send back such me-&-the-war stories as: "A reinforced American patrol, accompanied by this correspondent, this afternoon barreled eight miles deep through enemy territory . . . The jeep flew faster than the bullets which knicked just in back of our right rear tire...
Cars were halted in two half-mile-long lines at the Matanuska Valley town of Palmer. Blankets and C-rations were assigned, though not actually issued. But mechanics inspected every gas tank, oil gauge, transmission, differential, battery, oil filter, radiator and tire to make sure everything was in working order. Soldiers handed out dummy orders and authorized mock money allotments, and women were instructed on driving in convoys for the sake of safety...
Radio and television makers, who had been cutting prices only two months ago, were now energetically raising them; Emerson Radio & Phonograph, for example, boosted prices of TV sets by $10 to $30, its second price boost in 30 days. The Seiberling Rubber Co. jacked up tire prices 5% to 7½% for a total of 17% to 25% rise in the past four months. Johnson & Johnson announced an average 6½% boost in wholesale prices for much of its medical supply line, meaning that consumers soon would be paying 55? for a 49? box of Band-Aids...
Professional educators never tire of talking about the ideal teacher. Few have bothered to consult the object of the object of their talk, i.e., the schoolchildren. But one has: Dr. Paul Witty of Northwestern University, originator and judge of the annual "Best Teacher" contest sponsored by the Quiz Kids radio show. For five years, he has been poring over letters from children about their teachers. Last week, after reading the 90,000th, he told teachers at Northwestern's summer school just what the youngsters think about them...