Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auburn (5-0-1)-still unbeaten after another close one. 6-5 over Florida...
...Since the first press-gag law was passed in 1954, a score of newsmen have been imprisoned for crimes ranging from criticism of Menderes' financial policies to the suggestion that the Premier married for money. What is more, Menderes has suspended publication of Akis, has even dared to close down Ulus, the newspaper founded by the revered Kemal Ataturk...
...grinding away the metal to fit a pattern. Using the Elox method, a die shape can be formed first in wood or plaster, then sprayed with a soft metal. When the metal hardens, it is used as an electrode, i.e., conducts the electric current. When the electrode is placed close to a piece of metal and the current applied, the metal is vaporized to the same shape as the electrode pattern. With this process the hardest metals have been shaped as easily as cast iron, and the machines are automatic, e.g., one ran unattended for 72 hours while it shaped...
...country boasts its own airline, and some have two or three. Most of the carriers are not members-as are Pan Am and Panagra-of the International Air Transport Association, which taboos price warfare. The local airlines set fares as they please, often undercut Pan Am or Panagra by close to half. Samples: Guatemala's Aviateca charges $99 for a round trip between Guatemala City and Miami; Pan Am gets $147.60. I.A.T.A. fare for a Lima-Miami round trip is $473.40; Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami two-way ticket...
...home sewing. But no longer. Women are still sewing to economize-but on the fanciest dresses that Paris can design. Inundated by fashion news, furiously taking up and letting down to keep in style, some 35 million women are sewing profits for an industry that will reap close to $1 billion this year. Home sewers will spend $400 million for fabrics, $290 million for accessories, $270 million for home sewing machines, $40 million for 90 million patterns. About 20% of all feminine clothes are now made at home by women who sew an average of four to six garments...