Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American World Airways last week discharged some 5% of its 5,400 Latin American Division employees. Chief reason: "A runaway competitive situation in Latin America." Another carrier operating in Latin America, Panagra. last month asked the U.S. for a yearly $6,800,000 subsidy,* citing the drop in passenger loads (from 60% to 53%). Both Pan Am and Panagra blamed the fall in revenue on "the entry of a large number of foreign carriers into the area; the cut-rate fare policies instituted by many of these carriers...
...time for the United States to drop its "father knows best" attitude toward Quemoy and Matsu, John Carter Vincent, Associate of the Center for East Asian Studies, said at Adams House last night...
...listing recession as the top political issue; this month the same poll showed recession tumbling to 49%-alongside the state's road-building program, at 48%. Similarly in New Jersey, Republican Senate Candidate Robert Kean's prospects have improved in startling proportion to a 34,000 drop in unemployment since mid-June...
...Nasser sets out to build his $1.3 billion, three-mile dam, the Soviet credit-on easy long-term loan-will be but a drop in the bucket. Perhaps Khrushchev's cracks at joint East-West aid were an attempt to head off any Nasser move now to get Western help in making the dam a reality. But Khrushchev's bold gesture stirred Arab gratitude, and Nasser had his own domestic reasons for making it sound bigger and better than it actually...
...conclave the cardinals-ranged on their thrones along the walls of the Sistine Chapel-in effect share the powers of the papacy. But from the moment the new Pope accepts his election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...