Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...soldier will replace a sailor as director of the country's top-secret Central Intelligence Agency, the White House announced. The President had persuaded Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith to take the job held for the past 39 months by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter...
...were now energetically raising them; Emerson Radio & Phonograph, for example, boosted prices of TV sets by $10 to $30, its second price boost in 30 days. The Seiberling Rubber Co. jacked up tire prices 5% to 7½% for a total of 17% to 25% rise in the past four months. Johnson & Johnson announced an average 6½% 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...
California. Pasadena cops writing an examination for sergeant's ratings found themselves unable to define such low-down underworld terms as gopher (safeblower), third rail (incorruptible official), derrick (shoplifter) and kite (a letter sneaked past the warden). Crooks don't talk that way in Pasadena, they complained. The chief of police agreed, ordered all "detective fiction crime terms" stricken from the exam. Said one cop who got a higher score than his mates: "I'd read a short story in the Saturday Evening Post the night before, so I knew most of the answers...
Cinemactress Arline Judge, 38, past mistress at the art of marriage & divorce, who once said that she was sorry she didn't start out with Sixth Husband George Ross Jr., told a Virgin Islands divorce court that she could hardly wait to see the last...
DeCarlo began to think hard. He really didn't know his son, a 17-year-old who was taking a correspondence course in television. His wife didn't mind his long absences; she used their Christmas Club savings to buy fancy burial plots on the installment plan. Past 40, he saw nothing to go back to. The native girl seemed worth staying for. DeCarlo stayed...