Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overeager Japanese manufacturers may quote their 1956 camera sales to the U.S. at "$7,000,000 [April 15]," but the Department of Commerce count is $3,122,038. The same source puts German sales at $8,987,315. Figures show that most of the cameras imported by the U.S. were Japanese-more than 750,000, at an average value of $4.15. Next in number were 250,000 German cameras, at an average value of ,$40.90 each. GEORG BRINCKMANN Executive Secretary German Camera Industry Export Association Cologne, West Germany ¶ TIME should have made clear that its figure included sales made...
Islamic law permits a man to marry as often as he chooses-provided he never has more than four wives at a time. For a man as enthusiastic as the Sultan of Pahang, however, it may sometimes be hard to keep count. An eternal youth at 52, Sir Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-mu'adzam Shah ibni Al-marhum Al-mutasim Bi'llah Sultan Abdullah, soon to celebrate his 25th year as ruler of the largest state in Malaya, is a man as huge (6 ft. i in., 200-plus Ibs.) as his name...
...Count to 20. Giles's ruling passed the buck to the umpires, who are used to such chores. On top of everything else this season, they have had to start acting like stop watches. Anxious to speed up the game, the rule writers had a winter meeting and decreed that whenever the bases are empty a pitcher must pitch within 20 seconds after receiving the ball. What is more, a batter may not leave the batter's box after the pitcher is ready to throw...
...federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against the Teamsters' Union chief after it was reconvened quietly to hear the case...
...first count charged him with failure to report $88,828 of 1950 income on which additional taxes of $54,420 should have been paid. The second count accuses Beck of assisting in preparation of a false tax return for the Teamsters' Joint Council No. 28 Building Assn., in Seattle, in the same year...