Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN O. RICH Rollins College Winter Park...
...without running water and usually with an exorbitant rent of as much as $80 a month. "Many students," says Secretary Jacques Bertherat of the students' federation, "are forced to do their reading and writing in cafés and bistros, which at least provide some warmth during the winter months...
Oilmen, grumbling about refinery stocks of 437 million bbl., one of the highest early winter supplies in history, chopped back production 5%. Appliances, autos, machine tools all felt a slowdown. Private housing starts dropped 10% to less than 1,000,000 new houses, for the first time since 1947. And as freight-car loadings fell 16% at year's end, railroads were in such a fever to cut rising costs and bolster sagging profits that the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, giants of the industry, talked longingly of merger...
...farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep surplus food from collapsing the market. At year's end the 1958 harvest of the winter wheat crop was estimated at a near record of 906 million bu., 28% above the year before and one more sad reminder of the failure of the farm program to cut surpluses. With revenues estimated at $73.5 billion-or less-next year and a budget of $73 billion...
...Annunciation to Mary in March, indicated at right. The "Golden Numbers" at left form a table of the lunar cycles from which Easter and the movable Feast Days can be determined for any given year. Below are delightful vignettes of contemporary 16th century life, showing cardplaying in winter, early planting in March, harvest in July and cattle-slaughtering in October. Although a minor art, such miniature scenes are precious records of everyday secular life over the changing seasons. As such, it pushed forth a hardy sprout in succeeding centuries, blossoming into the full-scale landscapes and genre scenes that along...