Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choosing unless it is within walking distance of a school or is served by a school bus?" If the children could not get to school from a log cabin many miles away, "must the sanctity of the home be invaded?" No, MacGregor insisted. And the board reluctantly agreed to drop the charges...
...miles to 2 roentgens per hour at 17,000 miles, and that this meant that future space wayfarers should not have much to fear from radiation. But the project's scientists promptly warned that such apparent discoveries may prove to be the result of instrument failure or a drop in the power supply of the recording apparatus. The definitive report on Pioneer's findings may not be released for weeks or months...
Unemployment, which dropped 600,000 in September, is expected to drop that much more in October. This would take the nation's work force into Thanksgiving and the pre-Christmas shopping season with 3,500,000 out of work-well below the 5,000,000 average for the first eight months...
Durables Down. The consumer durables industry still lagged. Largely because of a 40% drop between August and September in auto assemblies, total September industrial output rose only to 137% of the 1947-49 average, a one-point increase over the 136% recalculated for August, which was the smallest monthly rise since the recession turned around last spring...
ELECTRONICS OUTPUT in 1958 will show first drop in decade, to $6.9 billion from $7 billion last year. Commerce Department cites sharp first-half cut in consumer purchases of TV sets and radios. But strong second-half comeback is expected...