Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international signal meaning that an urgent message follows. It was from the Shalom, which had a 40-ft.-long gash in her bow and was shipping tons of sea water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes were dispatched from Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station and the Lakehurst, N.J., Naval Air Station. Six Coast Guard cutters near the scene...
...Kellogg 19 and General Mills five. H. J. Heinz, General Foods and Kellogg have all opened plants in Japan. Green Giant is building a vegetable canning plant near Milan, and Libby, McNeill & Libby in July opened a new cannery at Vauvert in southern France. This week, to the distress of French poultrymen, a company jointly owned by Ralston Purina and France's Duquesne opens a large poultry processing plant in Brittany...
...suffered from an inability to get rid of excess water. Since the premature baby's kidneys may not be up to the job of ridding the body of excess water, Dr. Stowens suggested helping them with the Epsom salts enemas. In eight months, 28 babies with "severe respiratory distress and all clinical signs of hyaline membrane disease" were so treated, and all did well...
Some of the state's economic distress can be traced to the second great problem facing the next Governor: governmental dishonesty. No one knows for sure the extent of corruption in Massachusetts politics. The present indictments are not tantamount to convictions. But at the very least it is obvious that the state's complex and archaic constitution has created a structure peculiarly susceptible to backroom dealings and factional quarrels. Both the truth and the legend of corruption have aggravated the fiscal crisis. Within the Department of Public Works, proven kickbacks and bribes have in the past wasted valuable tax revenue...
After several days of debate, the delegates voted unanimously to ante up an increase in the IMF's $15.6 billion fund, which is used to bail out countries in financial distress. Most countries will probably get a 25% rise in their assessments, but certain ones that have been doing particularly well of late-such as Japan and West Germany-are expected to be asked to contribute even more. While the IMF met, delegates to the World Bank, the IMF's sister institution, also gathered in Tokyo; over strong objections from the Latin Americans, Filipinos and Iraquis, they approved...