Word: half-year
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...final reports trickled in, U.S. magazine publishers totted up their best half-year profits ever. For the first time since 1961, Curtis Publishing reported a six-month net profit of $368,000; ad revenues were up 18% on the Saturday Evening Post, 20% on the Ladies' Home Journal, and 40% on American Home. Time Inc. continued to pace the industry with a record net income of $17,730,000, up $4,095,000 from the same period in 1965. McGraw-Hill Inc. was in second place, with a net income...
...reduce domestic demand by $1.4 billion and substantially trim overseas expenditures. In addition to a voluntary freeze on all wages, prices and dividends for the next six months and for "great restraint" for the half-year after that, Wilson...
...family together in an ox-drawn wagon to come to Texas-and of how the wagon was flooded crossing the Red River, sending the tombstones to the bottom while the kegs floated off downstream. Most remarkable of all is the story of Sam Ordway himself and his half-year search throughout Texas for his little son Ned who was stolen away by a neighbor. Ned is not found until years later, but on the way every conceivable stereotype of the Old South and the Wild West is slyly overturned or brazenly outfaced...
...CCCP recommended instead that the core consist of one year of a physics sequence and math sequence plus one half-year of chemistry. The student would then add to this by selecting "science area electives" and "elective laboratories...
Chemistry 40a, which will correspond in most respects to the second half-year of the new course, is designed for chemistry concentrators and premedical students. It covers various methods used in quantitative analysis...