Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profits of $12,600,000. Overseas, subsidiaries and independent companies carry the Weston name on everything from ice cream to paper boxes, in Canada, India. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., three Weston firms operate a chain of seven plants from Passaic. N.J. to Tacoma. Wash., making biscuits marketed under three names, including its popular F.F.V. (Famous Food of Virginia) label...
...Iowa, Kans., Del., Md., Mont., Idaho, Wash. use the gallows. Utah offers the prisoner a choice of hanging or shooting. Thirty-three states execute by lethal gas, or electrocution. There is no capital punishment in Me., Mich., Wis., Minn., N. Dak., R.I. (but some of these states make exceptions in special cases, e.g., treason or, as in N. Dak., a first degree murder committed by a person already serving a life sentence for an earlier murder...
...given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...
...much in an organized way until 1941, when dwindling U.S. lumber reserves, new wood-using industries, and the increased needs of World War II gave the idea a boost. For a starter, Weyerhaeuser planted the first 120,000 acres of logged-over ground near Montesano, Wash, with Douglas fir seedlings, and sat back to watch them grow to logging size in 80 to 100 years...
...cattle and oil seed to Israel and last year got in return $5,000,000 worth of cars and jeeps (from Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant), $400,000 worth of antibiotics and drugs, $400,000 worth of pots and pans. Peasants in remote Anatolia now boil their weekly wash in Israeli-made pots fired by Israeli-made stoves, turned out near Israel's Ataturk Forest and carried to Istanbul in vessels of the Turkish Maritime Bank...