Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letting others do the cooking-and there was one indication that his own may not be all it has been cracked up to be. Said his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edgar Eisenhower of Tacoma, Wash., at a women's club meeting: "I know the President's cooking is all bluff. He turns the knob on high, burns it to a crisp, and that...
...president of the $300 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., the Northwest's largest (with 2,500,000 acres of timberland in Washington and Oregon), who pioneered selective cutting, tree farming, changed U.S. lumbering from a looters' pillage to a responsible business; of leukemia; in Tacoma, Wash...
...month (for 19 months) increase, said the National Safety Council. If the trend to more careful driving continues, the U.S.'s road toll for 1956 should hold below the council's earlier death estimate of 42,000-the population of Greenwich, Conn., Oshkosh, Wis. or Vancouver, Wash...
...demand for ships of that size is a stimulus that takes up market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards such as Kaiser's Vancouver, Wash, yard are being put into shape in anticipation of just such an overflow of orders-provided that the shortage in steel plate can be licked. "The shipbuilding industry will have to operate at 30% to 40% of its potential," says Leigh Sanford, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America...
...inspiration for another poem, Provide, Provide was a strike of the University's scrubbing staff. The work begins, "The witch that came (the withered hag) to wash the steps with pail...