Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were no jobs for migrant stoop laborers around Arizona's Indian reservations in early August, so Robert Grey-Eyes and family were idle. True to the Navajos' matrilinear tradition, they moved in on his mother-in-law, Ason Tso, near Many Farms, 150 miles east of the Grand Canyon. Mary Grey-Eyes, 35, a broad-faced, well-built mother of two, seemed fit despite chronic gall-bladder disease. But one Saturday afternoon, as towering Black Mountain's shadow reached across Carson Mesa to the comfortless, slab-sided hogan, the pain in Mary's side...
...machine-tool orders showed a 10% rise in September from August, though down considerably for the year...
...September factory sales of home-laundry appliances made a 34% gain over August sales, and TV set makers shipped more receivers to dealers in August than in the two previous months...
...years the Kremlin made easy propaganda profits out of calling for a ban on nuclear tests. Then last August President Eisenhower countered with his two-part proposal: Let's stop tests for one year on a trial basis, beginning Oct. 31, and make a start, in Geneva that very same day, toward working out a reliable test-detection system. The Russians suddenly found half a dozen reasons to attack the plan for a Geneva meeting. Last week the President turned the screw by calling upon the Soviet government to announce whether it would send a delegation to Geneva...
Despite the comeback of U.S. industry, signs of more inflation have yet to appear in the economy. The Labor Department reported last week that the consumer price index, which fell in August, stayed level in September, at 123.7% of the 1947-49 average. The Commerce Department also found the upturn still going strong. It noted that "the more volatile indicators have been advancing for several months, and those which usually lag are now showing signs of improvement." Items...