Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain of a prince for a parvenu, he shot a derisive shaft...
...Communist parts of the world, where German technical performance is respected. Beyond the 77% of East German trade that goes to Russia and European satellites, 11% now goes to the Middle East, most of the rest to the Far East. East Germany is now Europe's fifth biggest industrial nation...
...Fifth Place. Rambler has done so well that it is in fifth place in U.S. auto sales (after Chevrolet, Ford, Oldsmobile and Pontiac); its share of the market has risen from 1.6% to 6.2% in two years. This week it made its 20th successive increase in production in 1½ years. Yet the public is still ordering Ramblers faster than American can produce them. Romney is in the midst of a $10 million expansion program that will lift the company's capacity to 440,000 cars a year...
Speaking to a joint meeting of four service clubs, Pusey said that although educational institutions are tax exempt, Harvard stands fifth on the 1958 Cambridge tax rolls with a payment of nearly...
Such activity brought I-told-you-so nods at American Motors, which has climbed into fifth place in sales with its compact Rambler. American Motors betrayed no concern about the Big Three's entrance into its field. Said President George Romney: "We expect the Big Three to follow Rambler into the field of compact cars for the simple reason that this is the real growth part of the market. If they do, compact-car sales should reach an annual rate of 3,000,000 units by 1963. The upheaval that is in evidence in the automobile market...