Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...here in Japan, have been receiving her broadcasts each evening at 2130 hours at 970 kilocycles. Her voice is anything but "honeyed." A great many of us here believe her to be one of the "Lost in Action" missionaries reported missing soon after the fall of Seoul...
Consider the Artichoke. Lulled into a sense of false security by the wholesome potato, runs Dr. Salaman's argument, the underprivileged of the world succumbed to the will of the rich; the Irish in particular let their living habits fall to a standard as low as that of rooting pigs. The great blow fell in Ireland in 1845 when a dismal blight turned the entire potato crop to dust almost overnight, killing a million Irishmen and sending a million more to sow in the U.S. "The seeds of Anglophobia which, after 100 years, is still alive...
With money raised from private companies interested in foreign trade, the foundation bought a roomy mansion on Washington's Florida Avenue, set up a $200,000-a-year endowment fund, hired a faculty of five (bottom salary: $8,000). In the fall of 1944, the school received its first 25 students...
When young (22) Pancho Gonzales turned pro last fall, U.S. amateur tennis lost the top man on its totem pole-and the only player in sight who might have sat it out for a while. At Forest Hills last week, the low men were scrambling for Pancho's old spot. The result was a good deal like the confusion in the heavyweight division when Joe Louis hung up his gloves...
...good for Australia, such prices were bad news to U.S. woolen mills, which can expect even higher prices this fall when they start bidding for fine-grade apparel wool (last week's auction was mostly limited to grade B stock). The U.S. will import more than 300 million Ibs. of wool this year; textile manufacturers fear that the skyrocketing wool prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready...