Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No one knows exactly when, but it was some 2,000 years ago that a ship from Egypt was wrecked on the west coast of India, south of Bombay. Seven men and seven women survived, and an ancient cemetery at the village of Nowgow is traditionally the place where they...
New Genesis. Without any written records of their faith, which were presumably lost in the shipwreck, Saturday's Oilmen handed down what they could remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time...
From the Federal Reserve Board last week came news that department stores started their Christmas season from the highest take-off point in history. Sales in the final pre-Thanksgiving week hit 182 on the 1947-49 index, up from 169 in 1958. Only 5% ahead of 1958 at the...
All Rogues. Charles Greenough Mortimer was born in Brooklyn, the son of a brilliant but unbusinesslike inventor father and a sensible, businesslike mother, who is still alive at 86. A stout boy who learned to fight early because his playmates called him "Fatty," he was an only child and one...
Scramble for the Top. Mortimer took the advertising and marketing route upward at General Foods. He became vice president in charge of advertising in 1939, vice president in charge of marketing in 1947. One of the company's postwar problems was frozen foods. General Foods had carried the burden...