Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oozy Wash. At 28, against almost everyone's advice, Deller gave up his promising career in the furniture business to sing with the Canterbury Cathedral choir. His salary as a choir singer was only $600 a year, and he supplemented his income by working as a farm hand for 90 an hour, pedaling his bicycle twelve miles a day to and from work. Then in 1943, Composer Michael Tippett, in search of a lead voice for a series of Purcell concerts, auditioned Deller. "In that one moment," recalls Tippett, "the centuries rolled back. Deller's voice is like...
...other exotics from the imported-delicacies department. Few others ate that well. At Bloomingdale's, men and women slept in the home-furnishings and medical departments. Restaurants and bars did a booming business?though many rely on electricity to make their ice, pump their water, cook their food, wash the dishes, count the receipts, and of course light the premises...
...took all the satisfaction and joy out of flying. You always had to fly where they wanted. You sat there in this big plush seat with your earphones on, the radio chattering, and the engine noise drowning out almost everything." Now, in the lovely lake valley near Issaquah, Wash., Emrich operates an airport devoted exclusively to sky sports-flying, sailplaning, parachute jumping and ballooning. He is his own best customer, and was the first pilot to fly a sailplane across Mount Rainier. "I see so many people who are in ruts and aren't having fun," he says...
...industry's leading producer, announced that it would go along with the price rises (which left the metal selling for 10 per Ib. below its 1960 peak). That move, flagrantly ignoring Johnson's veiled warning, brought the Administration into the open. At a press conference in Wash ington, called at Johnson's specific command, Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley, Defense's McNamara and Treasury's Fowler declared that the alumi num price rises "have no justification under the wage-price guideposts and therefore are inflationary." Though he denied that the decision had anything to do with...
...Frenchman created rayon back in 1884, and European textile makers began weaving fabrics out of nylon a year after Du Pont developed it in 1938. But the havoc of World War II and a certain resistance to wash-and-wear and wrinkle-free clothes made Europe lag behind the switch to synthetic fibers that swept the U.S. in the 1950s. Now Europe is making up for lost time. Synthetic fibers have become a $2.6 billion business in Western Europe v. $2.4 billion in the U.S. Close to two dozen new chemical-based fiber plants are being built in Europe...