Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with firm U.S. support and massive doses of military and economic aid ($450 million to date, and scheduled for about $250 million next year), his problems were enormous; e.g., his control over much of the country was disputed by Communist guerrillas and the private armies of dissident sects; his shaky, war-weakened economy was battered by the need to take care of thousands of refugees...
...insipid ballad-with-a-beat that relates in sobbing tones something about young love misunderstood, and Hep Dee Hootie ("Cutie wootie, you're all rootie with me"), sold as fast as they could be scratched onto disks. Crush, says Capitol Records, has sold 1,160,000 copies to date, and in the two weeks since Sands's first LP album, Steady Date, was released, some 225,000 copies have been sold...
Armco had agreed to dump the iron into its electric furnaces to see if it worked as well as blast-furnace iron in the making of steel. On hand for the important test this week, the biggest to date, were observers from Jones & Laughlin, Granite City Steel and Colorado Fuel and Iron...
...Montreat, N.C. Evangelist Billy Graham last week husbanded his strength for his biggest battle to date with the Devil-over New York City. On the battlefield itself, his advance guard lined up the captains and cohorts for the struggle ahead (May 15 to June 30, and perhaps longer). In 50 countries around the world groups affiliated with 1,900 Protestant churches kept up 24-hour chains of prayer for the big campaign. But from a Roman Catholic churchman came the warning: Catholics in heavily Catholic New York (2,136,000) should not listen to Billy Graham in person...
...foreign countries, have annual foreign sales (including exports) of nearly $50 billion. The outflow of private direct investment reached $1.6 billion last year, more than double the 1955 figure, and U.S. investment in foreign stocks and bonds totaled another $1.2 billion. Private enterprise has invested $30 billion abroad to date, not including profits that firms plow back abroad each year...