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Airport; and in 1987 a teenage male was killed during a gunfight in the parking lot.
    English word with the most different meanings in the dictionary: Set , with 464. (2nd place, run .)

WHAT’S IN A NAME?
    You know these corporate and product names, but probably not where they come from. Well, the BRI will fix that. Here’s a little trivia you can use to entertain store clerks next time you’re shopping.
    K odak. No meaning. George Eastman, founder of the company, wanted a name that began and ended in the letter K. “The letter K has been a favorite with me,” he explained. “It seems a strong, incisive sort of letter.”
    Chanel No. 5 Perfume. Coco Chanel considered 5 her lucky number. She introduced the perfume on the fifth day of the fifth month of 1921.
    Lucky Strikes. Dr. R. A. Patterson, a Virginia doctor, used the name to sell tobacco to miners during the California Gold Rush in 1856.
    Ex-Lax. Short for Excellent Laxative .
    Reebok. An African gazelle, “whose spirit, speed, and grace the [company] wanted to capture in their shoes.”
    Avon Products. Named for Stratford-on-Avon, William Shakespeare’s birthplace.
    Random House. America’s biggest publisher started out in the 1920s, offering cheap editions of classic books. But founder Bennett Cerf decided to expand the line by publishing luxury editions of books selected “at random.”
    Kent Cigarettes. Herbert A. Kent, a Lorillard Tobacco Company executive, was so popular at the office that the company named a cigarette after him in 1952.
    Toyota. Sakichi Toyoda made the first Japanese power loom. His son Kiichiro expanded into the automobile business.
    Xerox. The Haloid Company originally called its copiers “electrophotography” machines. In the 1940s, they hired a Greek scholar at Ohio State University to think up a new name. He came up with “Xerography” for the process (after the Greek words for dry and writing) and called the copier itself a Xerox machine.
    There are nine members in the Official Rin Tin Tin Fan Club.

TANG TWUSTERS
    Ready for a workout? Here are 20 difficult tongue twisters. Try to say each of them five times fast...and don’t pay any attention to the people banging on the bathroom door, asking what’s going on in there.
    I f you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the coarse cross cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
    D oes this shop stock short socks with spots?
    T he sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
    “T he bun is better buttered,” Betty muttered.
    S even sleek sleepless sleepers seek sleep.
    S ixty-six sickly chicks.
    T he sun shines on shop signs.
    T he shady shoe shop shows sharp sharkskin shoes.
    A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
    R ush the washing, Russel!
    T he seething sea ceaseth seething.
    A wful old Ollie oils oily autos.
    M ummies munch much mush.
    T his is a zither.
    I ke ships ice chips in ice chip ships.
    S he says she shall sew a sheet.
    F eed the flies fly food, Floyd!
    M iss Smith dismisseth us.
    T ed threw Fred thirty-three free throws.
    R ex wrecks wet rocks.
    In Germany, a yuppie is known as a Schicki Micki .

THE STORY OF
WALL STREET
    Why is Wall Street the financial center of the United States? Why is it even called Wall Street? Here’s the answer.
    H ISTORY. In the early 1600s, the southern tip of Manhattan Island was a Dutch settlement known as New Amsterdam. In 1653, the governor of the colony decided the best way to protect his thriving trading post from Indians and the British was to build a wall from the Hudson River to the East River.
    However, the wall did little to deter the British. They attacked by ship in 1664, easily overwhelmed the Dutch, and renamed the city New York. Thirty years later, they tore down the wall and used it for firewood.
    NAME. The dirt road that ran alongside the wall was—naturally enough—known as Wall Street. When the wall was destroyed, the road became a main thoroughfare in New