Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply involved in the Billie Sol Estes scandal was by tossing its grain storage contracts around in willy-nilly fashion. But as a Kansas political issue, Breeding has the best of it. After all, there are a lot more wheat growers than wheat storers. And in elections, numbers count...
...clincher came last week in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Germany's daring Count Wolfgang von Trips flipped off the road last year, killing himself and 15 spectators. No accidents marred this year's race. Blasting his dark-green B.R.M. (for British Racing Motors) into the lead on the very first lap, Hill poured it on for 86 laps, hitting 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, taking the corners with precision. At the finish, he was 30 seconds ahead of the No. 2 man, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, in another B.R.M. Hill's average...
...Glore, Forgan & Co.'s Chicago branch, all employees last month took a salary cut of from 5% to 10%. In San Francisco, the monthly take-home pay of some customers' men had slipped to a bare $150. Even in Manhattan, where the big brokerage houses can count on a steady, bread-and-butter flow of institutional security buying, brokers were canceling plans to buy new cars and working longer hours...
...calm and fitful bloodshed was the war on the western frontier, which began in 1776. From then until more than a decade after Cornwallis' surrender, not a day passed when any settler in western New York, the valley of Virginia or the wilderness drained by the Ohio could count himself safe. His enemies were not merely the British, fighting at first to put down rebellion and later to hold the Great Lakes fur trade, but also the Indians, fighting for vengeance and survival...
...which had just taken the place of last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count on a small squash and corn crop, if the Indians did not burn his fields, but the abundant game in the forests did him little good; his tiny supply of gunpowder was hoarded for fighting...