Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idaho's Weippe Prairie, they gorged on camas bulbs (which made them sick) and dog meat (which they found surprisingly good). On the banks of the Clearwater River they built canoes and floated down the Clearwater and the Snake to the Columbia River near present-day Pasco, Wash. Harassed by squat, fish-eating Indians, who tried to steal their possessions, they navigated the Columbia's treacherous rapids and passed through the Cascades...
...person who reflects all and so is loved by all. Dr. Modesto recounts, "I fell into an ectasy of mediocrity. Whatever the others did, I did... To survive we must become happy nothings." Hingham has to work and behave centrally, for this is the life of Centralism: "Everytime you wash your car it always rains, if that's the general story. Throw salt over your shoulder. Knock on wood...
...complete overhaul of its operations so as to prevent abuses of the rights of government workers. These protests evidently had little effect on the administration until last January when Harry Cain, a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, publicly attacked the loyalty program in a speech in Spokane, Wash. Cain, unable to gain Administration support, continued to press for action, lobbying actively for a bi-partisan commission to review the operation of the loyalty program. After the President rejected this proposal, Cain secured the support of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey who sponsored a congressional resolution creating the commission...
...Frawley sold 4,000,000 pens and decided to invade the tough New York market. Twenty-two high-pressure salesmen visited 2,400 stores in six weeks. They wrote on retailers' shirts, promised a new $15 shirt if the ink did not wash out. His salesmen gave pens to school principals, won their approval and then advertised it. In the first year he spent $30,000 for advertising. This year PaperMate is spending $5,000,000. As a result, sales climbed from $360,000 to an estimated $26 million for 1955. In six years Frawley sold 51 million pens...
...Camas, Wash. last week, Crown Zellerbach Corp.'s Executive Vice President Harold L. Zellerbach picked up a gold-painted shovel and patted rain-soaked earth around the base of a newly-planted western hemlock. With this symbolic gesture, he dedicated the company's new three-story $600,000 central research laboratory building. Said Zellerbach: "Three decades ago, the western hemlock was considered little more than a forest weed...