Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested in some birds. She looked piqued...
...trip to Korea for the American-Korean Foundation last winter, California Builder Stephen Bechtel paid a courtesy call on Coordinator C. Tyler Wood of the Foreign Operations Administration. As Wood well knew, Bechtel was there to see how Korea's orphanages and hospitals were making out. But Ty Wood had another project that he considered just as important. For months, he had been unsuccessfully trying to persuade President Syngman Rhee to approve FOA plans for three coal-burning power plants for Korea. Would Bechtel please try his hand? Bechtel agreed to see what he could...
...plants could be built more cheaply and faster, burn Korea's own coal. As Bechtel left, Rhee put his arm around him and said: "All right, if you will come over and build thermoelectric plants, I will approve them." For fear that Rhee would change his mind, Ty Wood promptly declared it an emergency project, and persuaded Bechtel to take...
...last week prescribed strong medicine: pour in cheap foreign goods to bring prices down. To attract imports from the U.S. and other countries, Sweden abolished tariffs and restrictions on about half its imports. Included on the free list: chemical products, leather goods, most metal products, all paper except newsprint, wood products, shoes, hats, pottery, rubber products, glassware, dried and canned fruits, rice, brier pipes, fountain pens. In addition, the Trade Ministry eased restrictions on most commodities still requiring licenses...
That the basic good nature of the goal posts scramble may have saved many a post game riot, that a more suitable solution would have been to erect one steel post and cut the financial loss in half makes little difference now. The days of Barry Wood and Goal Post Wood are gone forever...