Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involuntary whistles of dismay broke the silence. The drop Macmillan reported was the biggest for any single month in the past five years, and it brought Britain's dollar reserves to their lowest level ($1.9 billion) since December 1952. The cause of this fiscal hemorrhage was self-evident: the disastrous attack on Egypt had weakened international confidence in the future of the British economy, led traders all over the world to exchange sterling for dollars in anticipation of devaluation of the pound...
...Menderes' orders, Education Minister Ahmet Ozel shot off a letter to Ankara's academic senate demanding that Feyzioglu be dismissed for indulging in politics. The senate investigated the case, cleared Feyzioglu and refused to drop him. The decision did not stop Ozel: he fired Feyzioglu anyway...
IRON-ORE shortage is forcing U.S. Steel Corp. to keep 50 of its Great Lakes ore carriers sailing to Jan. 1, and Army Corps of Engineers will hold Sault Ste. Marie locks open until then, instead of normal Dec. 15 closedown. But ore movement will drop to about 77 million tons from last year's 87 million tons. Reason: strikes by steelworkers and lake seamen...
...Federal Reserve's "tight money" policy has been the housebuilding industry. The banks, with more borrowers than money available, have looked down their noses at Government-backed mortgage loans with their relatively low (4½%) yields in favor of higher returns in other fields. Result: a drop in new housing starts from 1,329,000 in 1955 to the current rate of 1,100,000 a year. Last week, to sweeten up such loans for the bankers-and thus make more funds available to home builders-the Government raised the interest rate on new FHA-backed mortgage loans...
...sensuality. In The Magnificent Seven, as in Rashomon, Kurosawa has provided a feast of impressions, but has skimped on some of the more essential vitamins. The characters are clearly written and admirably played, especially the leader of the Samurai (Takashi Shimura). But only rarely does the story seem to drop through the floor of everyday reality into the moral hell that war really is. Unlike some of his Japanese colleagues, Director Kurosawa is not centrally concerned with spiritual statement. He would rather make a social comment, and in The Magnificent Seven he makes a biting...