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About 5% of Egyptian village families live on an income of less than $3 a month, 61% eke along on $3 to $14.50 a month, 30% get up to $29 and only 7% go above that. None of these families raises its own food...
Medalist was Bill Timpson, playing third man, who managed to eke out a 74. Timpson posted an easy 7 and 6 victory over the Bruin's Bob Jacobsen...
Principal crops: rice (more of which has to be imported to eke out the local supply), abaca (the famous Manila hemp), copra, sugar, corn, tobacco. The seasons: hot (March through June), rainy (July through October), cool (November through February). In the hot season, the government itself picks up & leaves Manila, settles down in the mountain city of Baguio (pop. 29,262), which is the official summer capital...
...disappear in 1943 and buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect of jail did not alarm the pink raven. Said she: "At last...
...twenty minutes last night Cooney Weiland's varsity hockey team looked like a championship club against B.C., but it died in the last period and the Eagles scored five straight goals to eke out a 10 to 9 win at the Arena. The Crimson will try to do better at 9 p.m. tonight against Northeastern on the Arena...