Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stampede to the Stockpens. The loudest cries of pain last week came from the cattlemen. Nationwide, the on-the-hoof price for beef cattle of all grades has dropped about 30% since the post-Korea high last spring. A fortnight ago the Omaha cattle market saw its worst break in three years, as choice steers slipped to 23.4? a lb.; a year ago, such steers brought 34?. The basic reason for the cattle-price decline is that beef animals are in long supply; by Agriculture Department estimates, the nation's cattle population has grown some 20% in the past...
Before he had been in office a fortnight, Brownell reached out to New York and booted Armand Chankalian out of his job as administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane. Chankalian, veteran of seven years in his job, had turned out to be buddy-buddy with New York's fashionable Gangster Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Luchese. Snapped Brownell: "There will be no dealings with gangsters or racketeers...
...skills and sufferings, Narayan failed in his first purpose. Recently he got to thinking that if he performed a really long penance, God might be pleased enough to bring "peace to the world." A fortnight ago, frail, black-bearded, 56-year-old Narayan let himself down to the bottom of a deep, six-foot-square pit outside of New Delhi. He spread the skin of a deer on the pit's wooden floor, placed his sandals carefully by his side, sat down and assumed the cross-legged "lotus position." Then he passed out a signed statement: "If anything wrong...
...change had been wrought in the first fortnight of the new Administration, and the President's speech proved how fundamental it was. To listeners in the House chamber and before the nation's television screens, Ike came through as a man who matched the challenges. He spoke with a sparing eloquence, his every intonation and shake of the head tuned to the meaning of his words. This was more than forensic skill; his speech was public evidence of an organizational and administrative talent which had already made Eisenhower the master...
...Dorado, Packard its Caribbean, and Oldsmobile its Fiesta. Kaiser-Frazer plans to bring out a fiber-glass plastic roadster this spring. Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...