Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Command's 2,000 bombers; a SAC squadron of 20 B-47s can drop the explosive equivalent of several hundred million World War II heavy bombers; SAC wants $2.5 billion for more bases, bombers and tankers...
...After totting up attendance figures for U.S. spectator sports. Triangle Publications (Morning Telegraph, Daily Racing Form) raced to report that horse parks, with 53,820,958 customers, led all other competitors for the sportsman's spare time. Second: baseball, with 32,512,503 (despite a drop of more than 1,500,000 in minor-league attendance). Third: football, with the colleges and pros playing to a combined...
...February in six years. Production rose slightly last week from its lowest level of the year, but several plants announced layoffs and cutbacks. Not all companies have been equally affected, but a comparison of 1957 and 1958 production between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22 shows a big drop...
...world catches pneumonia, have been anxiously taking their economic temperatures. While inflation has been checked in most countries, there have been only a few scattered sniffles so far. One big reason: U.S. imports have remained high, chiefly because of an increasing demand for small European cars, while exports have dropped. If the U.S. recession ends this year, European businessmen feel that they will not be affected, just as they were not affected by the 1953-54 drop. Items: ¶Britain's exports are booming (cars were a record 14,000 in January), and the ratio of import to export...
...Germany's production in January was up 5.1% over a year ago, and gross sales up more than 14%. But both production and exports were down from December, although much of the drop was seasonal. Unemployment is up slightly (to 1,432,000). The building industry, crimped by tight money, accounted for 70% of the jobless rise. Prices are easing in the textile, clothing and construction industries, but most German economists expect prices and wages to remain steady. ¶France, traditionally slow to react to economic fluctuations in the rest of the world, is still fighting inflation. While production...