Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Archery Association finally found Lamore's arrow 937.13 yds. away, they discovered that he had broken the old N.A.A. record for distance flight by nearly 50 yds. But Lamore, one of 1,000,000 toxophilites in the booming sport of archery, was just warming up. Half an hour later, using a 130-lb. hand bow, he fired an arrow 850.67 yds. to break the N.A.A. mark...
...bird man has done it, too, in Des Moines, Wichita, Louisville, and his home town, Great Bend, Kans. His fees are staggered to protect the customer: the Indianapolis job was worth $2,500-half is paid, and half is still to come if the birds do not return. The Mount Vernon contract calls for $4,000 in three installments...
Appeal. In Indianapolis, accused Bootlegger Eugene Turner was freed in court when the evidence-two half-pints of whisky-mysteriously disappeared...
...largest steel companies earned less on their invested capital (12.8%) than the nation's 25 biggest industrial firms (14.7%) in booming 1955-57, which tended to take some of the steam out of the union's talk about huge steel profits in 1959's exceptional first half. On the other side, the report answered industry's contention that a wage raise would necessitate a price rise. It showed that since 1951 the industry's wage-and-benefit costs per ton of steel have gone up from $32 to $44, while its price...
...travel agents get as much of a kick out of their work as the tourists do from their travels. Says President J. Stuart Rotchford of Chicago's big Happiness Tours: "With the same effort in another business, I could make twice the money. But I would not have half...