Word: washings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tacoma, Wash...
Says Alaska Federation of Labor President Bob McFarland, 47 (home town, Republic, Wash.): "You find so many brilliant people here, people attracted by the sense of challenge that Hawaii, for example, could never supply. Yet life is slower and tastier somehow. I've been back to New York twice-a walk up Times Square and I've just about had it. Now put the reins in our hands and see what we do with it." Says Governor Mike Stepovich: "Only the people of little faith are against statehood...
...Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...
Walla, Walla, Wash...
...belated garbage-collecting campaign, piles of refuse still lie festering along Calcutta's winding "gullies," and on street after street, vendors of rotting food still hawk their fly-infested wares. In the teeming bus tees (slums), where people drink out of the same slimy ponds they wash in, the disease spreads relentlessly from hut to hut, bringing with it its agonizing retching and diarrhea. In one week alone nearly 1,000 people died-yet India's government continues to be too little and too late with help. Said one bitter physician after ten hours with his vomiting patients...