Word: wheelbarrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harder and harder to get jobs, while they pay more and more for everything from meat to movie tickets. But it is still fairly common to see a day laborer broiling his lunch-a thick, juicy steak the size of a dinner plate-over a fire in his wheelbarrow. After two bad drought years, farmers last year harvested a fine, 7.8 million-ton wheat crop. After a year of tasteless, sandy-colored bread adulterated with birdseed, Argentines are again eating white bread...
...studio in Fordingbridge, 75 miles from London, looked oddly unlike the workshop of a great painter. Instead of easel and brushes, a wheelbarrow full of clay stood in the center of the room, the wooden kitchen table was littered with well-used sculptor's tools, and finished and unfinished busts rested on pedestals or were swaddled in damp cloth. But for all the strange clutter, it was the studio of Britain's dean of portraitists: bearded crusty old Augustus John, still vigorous and sharp-eyed at 74. In the six months, John has picked up the sculptor...
...Fisher, who will make two addresses during his visit, said part of his time would be spent boning up on the coronation rite for the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II next June. Also, though not as active a gardener as Bishop Sherrill, "I shall be ready to push the wheelbarrow as far as I may be able...
...Pittsburgh baker, Reinhold got into the ice-cream business as a boy, chopped ice from a nearby river to freeze his product, and delivered it by wheelbarrow to local drugstores. He built a sizable Pittsburgh business, moved to Florida, and, in 1931, took over the management of Foremost. By expanding into new markets, he boosted sales 50-fold (to $53 million in 1951), has more than doubled Foremost's net (to $1,508,493) in the past five years alone...
...students were even more enthusiastic about it than the surgeon-professors. The University of Kansas has used black & white TV for two years, but the switch to color ("like the difference between a wheelbarrow and a Cadillac") makes it far easier for students to tell a nerve from a tendon, something which was impossible among confusing shades of grey. Color TV is also an improvement over color movies. Says one Kansas student: "In the movies, you always knew everything would come out all right. Here, you never know when the guy will strike a snag. It keeps you watching...