Word: april
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nenana lottery started in 1917, when railway workers got up a $600 pool, won by a man who guessed that the ice would break up at 11:30 a.m. on April 30, still a favorite date among pool guessers. Not since that first year, mourn citizens of Nenana, has anybody from the lottery's home town won a prize. But Nenana (pop. 350) runs the contest as a civic enterprise and rakes in some 40% of the total take every year without any help from luck. In the spring, just about every adult in town works for the lottery...
...Gaulle's pronouncement-the most optimistic he has allowed himself-sent a wave of applause through his audience, a wave of astonishment through professional politicians. In Algiers last week the French army boasted that the rebels had suffered an average of 900 casualties a week in March and April -a claim that scarcely suggested that the Algerian fighting was dwindling. A rebel spokesman, far from denying the French claim, declared that the rebels were in fact losing 500 men a day, but that, despite this, their army had grown...
...April surge in employment (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was the result of a powerful surge in the economy. Items...
...Automakers sold 503,890 cars in April -first half-million month since June 1957 -and they produced 578,825, the most since 1955. More important, the production rate was gaining speed, advanced 13^% from late April to early May, and was 74% ahead of last year's pace...
...Department stores rang up 8% more sales in the week ending May 2 than last year. Sears, Roebuck alone reported April sales...