Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week, led by the 60,000 members of the National Federation of Housewives, British women were boycotting their greengrocers, wearing bows of white tape to show that they wanted prices down. In Huddersfield the local N.F.H. chairman, Mrs. Neil Sykes, advised housewives to make their salads of nettle tops, primrose and cowslip leaves, dandelions and wood sorrel. And in a speech at Reading, Food Minister Maurice Webb made political capital of the boycott...
Last week, with the assistance of the Royal Navy, which insisted that its only interest was in training divers and locating the exact site of the wreck, the Argylls were at it again in Tobermory Bay. The time had come, the eleventh Duke decided recently, to make "a really serious attempt" at the treasure. Even if loot eludes him, the Duke hopes to make expenses selling movie and feature story rights to the search. "The world is too drab," he says. "I think we could all do with a little romance...
That was enough to make an effective strike. Creole, the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary that produces almost half Venezuela's oil, reported output down 75% and closed its 300,000-barrel-a-day pipeline south of Lake Maracaibo for fear of sabotage. Shell Oil was reported to be closed down even tighter than Creole. The stoppage was just as tough on the government: its revenues, derived mainly from oil royalties, fell off sharply...
Montana's Democratic Governor John Woodrow Bonner, 47, on his way to Biloxi, Miss, to make a speech, ran into a spot of trouble in New Orleans' French Quarter. New Orleans Cab Driver Philip Bellinger tried to piece together the story for reporters: "This guy came up to me on Canal Street. He was kinda stinkin', I guess. He told me he was the governor of Montana. We got a lot of tourists get to thinking they're governor sometime or other. I didn't believe this guy, but I told...
...change he is determined to make. So far, the BBC has played its broadcast performances in a huge, empty studio in suburban Maida Vale. If Sir Malcolm has his way, he will open the doors to an invited public as Toscanini and the NBC orchestra do. Says he: "One misses the presence of people listening...