Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaviest and costliest car, driven by the youngest driver, scored an upset victory in the 1956 Mobilgas Economy Run last week. At the end of the four-day, 1,468-mile course from Los Angeles to Colorado Springs, the trophy for the best gas mileage, won by lightweight Studebakers the last two years, went to a 4,580-lb., Chrysler Imperial Southampton (list: $5,618), piloted by 26-year-old Mel Alsbury Jr., of Hollywood...
...heaviest March blizzard since 1888 hit the Boston area last night with an estimated snowfall of 10 to 12 inches...
...World Health Organization issued a jubilant report: in 36 countries on six continents diphtheria is now "a vanishing disease, and no longer a public health problem." Reason: spreading use of anti-diphtheria shots. Heaviest toll is now among children about four years...
...Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife . . . The Taft-Hartley law would have me resign from all that's not in conformity with popular beliefs...
...hinted repeatedly that if they fail to get what they want by negotiation and political pressure, they could always stoke up U.S. and allied fears of war with some show of force." [As if on cue, the Reds unleashed a 3,000-shell, one-day bombardment of Quemoy, the heaviest barrage in 16 months...