Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska, the President returned to Washington 17 days and seven nations after he had left. A smallish claque of Government workers was on hand and a huge WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT banner rippled in the wind-lashed rain at Dulles International Airport. The President noted wryly: "We had perfect weather until we landed in the U.S. But that shows what happens in an election year...
...description. He gets about so quickly that already, only five weeks after arriving in Boston, he receives several hundred calls a night. And when it comes to friendliness, he's as cold as Petula Clark. He's an automated hard rock station that foregoes disc jockeys, news, weather, and time reports and keeps ads at a minimum...
...Because of Government crop controls and the increasing size of foreign-aid shipments of food to famine-threatened nations, the wheat surplus has dropped since 1963 from 32.5 million to 15.2 million metric tons, is now below the minimum needed as insurance against domestic crop failure. In addition, bad weather reduced this year's harvest. Speaking at the Miami convention of the National Association of Food Chains last week, Boston Supermarket Executive Gordon F. Bloom said: "American consumers have grown accustomed to low food prices based on surpluses that are no longer with us. The honeymoon is over...
Bottled soft drinks are so commonly accepted that the Japanese substitute them for barley water as warm-weather refreshers, upper-caste Indians serve them at wedding receptions, and Middle East businessmen offer them to visitors as an alternative to Turkish coffee. Europeans mix their whisky with ginger ale or lemon-lime. White Rhodesians have a fad on for brandy and Coke. Zambian copper-belt workers, who once paid threepence for a home-brewed raspberry drink, now pay sixpence for "sophisticated" sodas. Everywhere, increasing ownership of refrigerators has lifted soft-drink sales. In Hong Kong, U.S. brands hold...
...take over another large foreign market for fruit-base drinks. Coca-Cola has the familiar orange-flavored Fanta, as well as orange Cappy, which is not seen in domestic markets. Pepsi has a line of fruit drinks called Mirinda. The global market has few seasonal fluctuations. When cold weather comes to Europe and Japan, the sun shines all the brighter in Australia and Africa. Says Britain's Lord Watkinson, whose Schweppes Ltd. is also a Pepsi bottler: "It doesn't rain or snow all over the world at the same time...