Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...boost in wholesale prices for much of its medical supply line, meaning that consumers soon would be paying 55? for a 49? box of Band-Aids, 55? for a 50? package of absorbent cotton. One big company (E.R. Squibb & Sons) raised toothpaste prices 10% to 25%, presumably others would fall into line. The jump in prices of cotton textiles had reached about 25% by last week and some retail merchants accused big textile manufacturers of withdrawing their sheets and pillowcases from the market in order to sell them later at higher prices. Automobile dealers were getting $100 to $400 above...
...would be a death blow to the Communist pretense of fighting for the national independence of Asia's people), and the fact that in the near future the native Reds alone can scarcely hope to overrun the French, make the odds slightly against an all-out attack this fall. But only slightly: the Red radio is still talking blithely of the coming "general offensive...
Excuse for Existence. This fall, with spry, 72-year-old Mrs. Mitchell still in charge, Bank Street will be operating pilot classes in four New York City schools; 300 teachers, many of them from public schools, will be taking courses at Bank Street headquarters...
...Chicago, United Paramount Theaters, Inc. signed an agreement to pipe Western Conference football games into three Chicago theaters and one in Detroit. Since no Big Ten games will be telecast to the public this fall, the four theaters will have exclusive rights to the games as they are played. NBC Vice President "Chic" Showerman happily ticked off the advantages: "On large-screen theater TV you can smell the players, they're that close. You can go to a game, you won't have to wear the old raccoon coat, and you don't have to get drunk...
...Houston, Miss. (pop. 1,700), Van Buren Philpot Jr. picked up a lot of local lore about snakes. He heard that many harmless snakes are immune to bites from rattlers and moccasins, that the nonpoisonous king snakes often eat venomous snakes. When he entered Tulane Medical School in the fall of 1946, Philpot felt that there was still a lot to be learned about snakebite poisoning, and made up his mind to fill in some of the gaps himself...