Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause of the recession is automation and speedup in manufacturing processes. When an item can be made in half the time it formerly took, then men will be out of work six months out of the year...
...refusing to be part of this political pact, the President listed half a dozen ill effects on farmers if the bill were allowed to become law. Among them: it would reverse notable progress made to date in balancing farm supply with the demand for farm products, pile up more Government surpluses, discourage the growth of new markets for farmers' products, postpone the day when farmers can be freed from the straitjacket of controls. Regarding those, said Ike. "what the farm economy needs is a thaw rather than a freeze...
...temper of the public as a whole is not that of a nation sliding into another depression." One-fourth of the families interviewed said they were "better off" than a year ago, one-half felt they were "about the same," and only one-fourth considered themselves "worse...
...half-million Moslems of Ibadan in Western Nigeria have two heroes: Hogan Bassey, the Nigerian boxer who is featherweight-champion of the world, and Ade-goke Adelabu, 43, a spellbinder whose Ibadan People's Party is their first line of defense against surrounding .tribes. The latest ring victory of their first hero (see SPORT) was not enough to compensate last week for what happened to their second...
Back at his Beirut travel base of operations. Author Sitwell was driven half mad by the continual playing of Scheherazade over the hotel's loudspeaker system. But he had no complaints about "the tourist service that had arranged most of his tour, appropriately named the Sinbad Travel Agents...