Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monthly, 82-year-old Farm Journal follow that formula-telling down-to-earth stories in down-to-earth prose-that it has achieved an audience concentration unmatched by any other major specialized magazine; with a circulation of 3,119,366, the Farm Journal is read by fully half the nation's farmers...
This year, for the first time, Cessna is forging ahead of rival Beech Aircraft ("across the street" in Wichita) as the No. 1 maker of private planes. Cessna announced first-half earnings for fiscal 1959 of $3.92 a share v. $2.45 last year, declared a 25% hike in its quarterly cash dividend to 50?. The company's conservative projection of the year's earnings: $7 a share...
Today's dean of British humorists is a 77-year-old U.S. citizen who has lived in America on and off for half a century and now resides permanently at Remsenberg, L.I. The blurb to his new book of ten short stories suggests that "the sound of [his] clicking typewriter keys beats a gentle staccato against the roar of the ocean surf." The volume is recognizable Wodehouse, gently satirical, its barbs wielded with whimsy. But the more remarkable thing about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse in his twilight years is the way the decades of ocean-hopping have scrambled his language...
Army's league-leading baseball team edged the Crimson, 4 to 3, at West Point Saturday, on the strength of two infield errors in the last half of the ninth inning. It was the varsity's third straight Eastern League loss...
Over a thousand people, by far the largest crowd of the season, watched the two clubs struggle to a scoreless tie in the first half. The Crimson suffered a harsh disappointment when wing forward Dave Kiely dribbled the ball over the Indians' goal line only to be tackled before he could touch it down...