Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Whether they are pushing Perrier, Poland Spring or 20 plain, the highly competitive purveyors of bottled water rarely miss a trick. Now A.J. Canfield Co. has a new client for its bottled Natural Seltzer Water. Reads the back of the label: "An excellent water for all house-plants." In a chorus of ads on Midwestern television and radio stations, Canfield proclaims the wonders of Natural Seltzer when administered to a patient like that limping rubber tree in the corner. Rhapsodizes Vice President Alan Canfield Jr.: "When you water plants with our product, you're giving them food...
...taxes in an election year, but this year, the Carter Administration vowed, that would not happen. Absolutely not, declared Jimmy Carter. Absolutely not, vowed Treasury Secretary G. William Miller. Absolutely not, echoed Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. The great problem was inflation, the Administration said throughout the spring, and that required a balanced budget, and no tax cut. "I will not consider any reduction in taxes," said Carter last March, "until I am convinced that the 1981 budget will be balanced...
...telephone cord. On a table was a note: "Jeremiah says the King is the King of Kings." In the basement, the officers found a letter from the Soviet embassy in Washington informing King that he could not become a Soviet citizen, plus records of about $300 deposited this spring in a Swiss bank and passports for King and his wife. Said Deputy Sheriff Emit Kennedy: "He definitely had something planned...
Immortal in Lipstick. Cleaning up is not easy, either. Only this spring has the Park Service figured out how to cope with the problem of Box Canyon. Box Canyon, in Mount Rainier National Park, contains such a remarkable example of glacial action that in 1957 the park ran a blacktop trail into the canyon and put up a marker calling attention to the phenomenon...
...decision is final, said the federal district court, judgmentally; it makes no difference if Grosset has had a contract with the Stratemeyer Syndicate since 1930. That was an old story, and the latest adventures are as fresh as this spring's corn. Still, all was not black for Grosset. Although their claim for $300 million in damages was effectively dismissed, they would be allowed to publish the Tom Swift Jr. series, as specified in a 1951 agreement. Ruefully, the combatants might recall the innocent days when all that fictive boys and girls had to worry about was Melted Coins...