Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vanguard party of two will fly to Lima this morning. The rest will follow on Thursday, June 22. When they split up, they agreed to meet "at the street corner" on June 23--the corner of the dirt road from Paramonga to Huares and a mule trail to the Indian village of Chiquian...
...Dirt. While the stock of Zenith Radio was jumping from 31½ this year to a high of 70¼, Zenith President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. formed a subsidiary, "Teco," and gave his stockholders the right to buy one share of Teco at $10 for every five shares of Zenith they held. Teco is to handle his Phonevision for televising movies (TIME, May 1) if & when he gets it on a commercial basis. In a few weeks, the price of Teco rights was bid up to $38 on Chicago's over-the-counter market. The rise alarmed McDonald. Last...
...knees by fears of war, the Truman election, the business recession and dozens of other minor frights. By June 1949, when the Dow-Jones industrial average had skidded from 193.16 to 161.60, some market experts officially hung a crepe on the bull. But others insisted that stocks were dirt cheap. Enough investors took their advice to start the market moving upward, even though industrial production was still going down...
...eldest son, John, a black-haired husky of 27, called in a quavering voice: "Pa . . . Pa, don't get excited." Dominick moaned, and his blackened head dropped. But at 2:40 in the afternoon, as the excavators reached him and began digging the dirt away from his legs he was still conscious and still uncomplaining. He asked for a bottle of Coca-Cola and drank...
Nowadays the island is dirt-poor, but judging by the ruins of some 7,000 small stone castles, it was a prosperous, well-populated land 1,000 years before Christ. Carthage conquered the island in 450 B.C. and reduced its people to a relatively barbaric state. Soon much of Sardinia's ancient sculpture lay buried under layers of silt and rubbish, not to be uncovered again until Italian archeologists began digging it up a century...