Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha, and the first people I'm going to pay back are those little old widows-yessiree, I'm going to call them right up to the head of the line." Cage's wife, who wears mink despite the heat, is staying by her hard-working husband's side...
...Buenos Aires, Nelly Rivas, 19, onetime teen-age mistress of Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan ("Just call me Pocho") Perón, announced that she and husband Carlos Ramil, an accountant at the U.S. embassy, expect a baby in April...
...Colombia, also hit by an epidemic, issued a similar call, got 90,000 children immunized. The schedule: three doses spaced three weeks apart. In Medellin doctors are trying a three-in-one vaccine combination for the newborn, will wait to see how it works before extending the one-dose method to older children...
Whether the Fed's move was justified was loudly disputed. Certain congressional Democrats lined up against the rate hike. "Extraordinary." said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. "An awful thing," said Chairman Wright Patman of the House Small Business Committee, who issued a new call for a sweeping inquiry into federal fiscal and monetary policies. The Fed's move, said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "represents a further tight-money dampener to economic recovery, while 6% of the labor force is still unemployed, and about 20% of productive capacity is idle...
...years ultrasonics meant something only to dogs and other subhuman creatures. One of the few uses of ultra-high sound waves was in whistles, too high-pitched for human ears, to call pets. Today ultrasonics is an exciting new technological frontier. Last year the ultrasonics industry's commercial and military sales reached $25 million, and in 1959 they are expected to double. Last week industry experts estimated that within five years there will be a $150 million annual market for ultrasonic* equipment...