Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most influential structures in modern architecture, was razed to make room for a trucking-company parking lot. Louisiana's Greek Revival Belle Grove, one of the most beautiful of ante-bellum plantation mansions, was burned to the ground by vandals as it stood abandoned. Baltimore has less than half a dozen structures left of its rich pre-Revolutionary heritage. In all, more than a quarter of the 7,600 buildings tagged by the National Park Service in 1933 as of historic and artistic importance have been destroyed...
Leaders & Laggards. The indexes use statistics from 21 different areas that cover the important segments of the nation's economy-production, employment, income, prices, etc. When all statistics are moving up, the diffusion indexes read 100. When all are moving down, the indexes are zero. If half are moving up and half down, the indexes are 50. When the indexes drop below 50, it means the economy is contracting; when they rise above 50, the economy is expanding. The basic 21 are broken down into three groups called 1) the Leading Series, 2) the Coincident Series...
...climb above the 50 mark for the first time in a year. This is a good though not infallible sign that the economy has seen the worst. Said Economist Moore: "The way these indicators have behaved, an upturn in business activity should come during the second half of 1958. But business activity may not return to the peak levels of last July until late 1959 or early...
...Iron Sheets. Cotton bed sheets and pillow cases that need no ironing were put on sale by Indian Head Mills, Inc. The sheets and matching pillow cases dry to a wrinkle-free finish in little more than half the time of ordinary sheets, are available in muslin and percale, white and striped. Prices...
...broken reed I" If Gulbenkian was something of a solid gold Scrooge, he also had Scroogian fears. According to Young, the sordid 1920 murder of a Manhattan pawnbroker named Gulbenkian, no kin, scared him out of ever visiting the U.S. He reputedly kept a ton and a half of gold in his London safes, presumably against a rainy day. An electrified barricade surrounded his Paris home, together with innumerable burglar alarms, watchdogs and a platoon of private guards and spies. Life with father was a perpetual war of nerves for wife Nevarte, son Nubar and daughter Rita...