Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...dozen off the support price of eggs, the farmers and their hens kept cackling away. Obviously, it was time for a hard-boiled solution. Last week it came. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan announced that the Government was canceling egg supports after Dec. 31. (The eggs on hand represented a loss of about $85 million to the Government.) The order also meant that U.S. consumers should be able to get cheaper eggs at the grocery store after New Year...
Ever since big, likable Erle Cocke Jr. was elected national commander of the American Legion, his home town had been making plans to throw Erle the biggest hoedown in history. Last week, enough brass bands were on hand to blast the hickory nuts off every scaly bark tree in Terrell County...
Needles & Sparks. People rushing out of houses in the heavily populated city area along the tracks found themselves colliding in the dark with hundreds of people rushing out of the train. With no help at hand, dozens of dazed and bleeding survivors hurried off by themselves, like wounded animals, to make their own way to hospitals or homes. For minutes the tangled wreckage lay on the tracks as though it had been lost and forgotten, with only the roving flashlights of ladder-carrying householders to reveal glimpses of its horrors...
Then fire engines, police cars, ambulances and taxicabs began drawing up. Emergency floodlights bathed the shattered cars in an unearthly brilliance. Cops, firemen and workmen with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began to create their blinding cascades of sparks while firemen sprayed water past them to keep trapped humans from, burning. A jostling crowd gathered, a sound truck began rasping out commands...
...head of the Chinese procession strode General Wu Hsiu-chuan, director of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European Division of the Peking Foreign Office. Waiting at the airport customs shed Wu & friends found Russia's Jacob Malik. As he gave Wu the glad hand, Malik drew a sheaf of papers from his pocket and handed them to the Chinese leader. A few minutes later Wu distributed the same papers among waiting newsmen. On each sheet was a copy of what purported to be Wu's own first public statement to peace-loving people...