Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like sleet out of a grey winter sky, gloomy economic reports pelted out of Washington. The December industrial-production index drooped 7% below the level of December 1956. Personal income fell off in the steepest monthly drop since the alltime peak of last August. Year-end unemployment edged up 200,000 to 3.4 million to make it 5.2% of the labor force, the highest December rate since the recession year...
...more than four years the most obvious flaw in the shining moral armor of India's Jawaharlal Nehru has been the case of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) "Lion of Kashmir." Since August 1953 Abdullah has been held a prisoner without trial. His only crime: he pursued policies in Kashmir that were unacceptable to India's Prime Minister...
Edward C. Migdalski, Yale Fishing Coach, has announced that Yale intends to sponsor the third annual Intercollegiate Game Fish Seminar and Fishing Match at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia in late August or early September...
...first Seminar was held at Wedgeport in early August of 1956. At that time Yale invited St. Francis Xavier University of Antigonish, Nova Scotia to participate. Not a single student attending had previous big game fishing experience. The contestants came from different parts of the United States and Canada, and included one student from Pakistan...
...hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber of the goods is so low-the cement takes twice as long as it should...