Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...city council warned: "Who favors this disgraceful business will fall into disdain. The council will expose to public judgment all those who persist in these immoral actions." Most of Celle's citizens paid no attention...
...showed its esteem for Gus by making him a full professor in 1943. Zionist circles had honored him too. In 1946 when friends took up a collection to buy Gus a gift for his work in Zionism, he asked them to spend the money for trees for Israel. Last fall Gus learned that the ten-thousandth tree had just been planted in a section of Israel's national forest named...
There was plenty of good news behind the market's rise. Despite the steel strike last fall, U.S. Steel reported that 1949 earnings had set a 20-year record of $165.9 million, and raised the quarterly dividend from 50? to 65? a share. This week General Motors Corp. likewise raised its quarterly dividend from $1.25 to $1.50. The construction industry was also still prosperous ; the Labor and Commerce Departments reported that the value of new construction in January totaled $1.5 billion, a new record for the month...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue (TIME...
When the boat bearing the monstrous cheese docked at Glasgow in the fall of 1881, hundreds of cheering Scots lined the quay. Hundreds more pushed and shoved their way into Thomas Lipton's produce store on High Street when it went on display there. A few days later, tall, rawboned Owner Lipton had another thought: Why not hide gold pieces in the cheese and let the public know it? When the cheese was finally sliced up and sold on Christmas Eve, Glasgow shoppers mobbed the store, bought up every crumb of Lipton's "Jumbo" in two hours...