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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were working the 600-acre Missouri farm that the President had once tilled. "My boy's a girl," said the President. "Of course, I wouldn't trade her for any two boys, but I wish I had some. These boys are good farmers and they have that sort of reputation. The only handicap they have is that their uncle is President of the United States . . . you know what a terrible handicap that is to a family...
...hope of increasing the ration. Extra petrol meant spending extra dollars, since 36% of Britain's supply must come from U.S. companies, and spending dollars meant going without timber for houses and food for lunch. The government, many Britons knew, had been busy since last November with some sort of negotiations with U.S. oil companies, but the only result seemed to be a decision to cut dollar-spending even more. Then, one day last week, Fuel Minister Philip Noel-Baker rose in the House of Commons to announce that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and California Texas...
...what is it-an animal of some sort...
Bonds in Sewers. Today the corporation's domain includes 165 buildings, 11,000 students, 5,000,000 books, an endowment of $177 million. It owns bonds in the sewers of Baton Rouge, La. and in the Province of Alberta. It has stock in every sort of industry from Jacob Ruppert (brewers) to the A. & P., and real-estate from the Kentucky coal fields to some island parcels off the coast of Maine...
...people took their denominational differences more seriously. "[Today] we have the strange spectacle . . . of people refusing to worship together, while not knowing just why . . . [In the old days] the tobacco chewers always did their spitting at sermon climaxes, the juice hitting the floor with a resounding smack as a sort of substitute for a cheer...