Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damn that boy, he's asleep again") went on errands fast asleep, and snored as he waited at table...
...reversed its Finance Committee, voted 75-20 to increase the non-service-connected disability pensions of more than 1,100,000 veterans and their widows and orphans. The payoff, long advocated by the American Legion, would amount to $10 billion, spread over 40 years. The House, by voice vote, went along with the Senate, but the chances of the bill escaping a veto were slight...
...before they had bought Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James Whitcomb Riley. A Heap o' Livin' ("It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies. At his peak, Guest earned $128,000 a year. He had many impressive friends; Henry Ford and William Lyon Phelps were among his greatest admirers. He owned two handsome homes-a vast, colonnaded winter residence in Detroit, a summer home...
Many of their shots went wild, but sometimes a snipe hit home. After "Checking the Press" exposed the high incidence of identical Citizen and Dispatch stories, the Citizen began rewriting pressagents' handouts. With considerable Tightness, Franken and Grove pointed out that a football game for charity (Philadelphia Eagles v. Chicago Bears), sponsored by the Dispatch and the Columbus Ohio State Journal, cost Ohio taxpayers $60,000 more than the take...
...machinery and steel, cars and oil, for the same reasons that U.S. imports of them are steaming up: the foreign products are plentiful, low in price and of good quality. Comparing the first halves of 1958 and 1959, U.S. imports of electrical apparatus, electronics parts and transistor radios went up from $72 million to $96 million, imports of industrial machinery from $89 million to $115 million, iron and steel products from $93 million to $229 million, cars and parts from $248 million to $424 million, oil and its products from $806 million to $842 million...