Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime pattern in New York City the heaviest in areas where the birth rate is most prodigious? Does this not reflect a crying need for the dissemination of birth control information, despite the organized opposition of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Toronto Stock Exchange, often the scene of frenzied trading, had never seen anything like it. In a single day last week, 14.8 million shares changed hands for the heaviest trading day in the exchange's history. On the floor, traders surged around trading posts, rushed madly from booth to booth waving order slips and shouting at the top of their lungs. The heavy trading was touched off by reports of a rich drill hole in a copper vein discovered more than a fortnight ago in the Mattagami area of Quebec by New Hosco Mines Ltd., a smalltime mining outfit...
Died. Robert Earl Hughes. 32. plausibly billed as the heaviest man in medical history (6 ft.. 1.041 Ibs.), son of an Illinois farmer, traveling attraction on the carny circuit, probable victim of an incurable disfunction of the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus; of uremia; in Bremen, Ind. With a maximum circumference of 10 ft.. 2 in.. Hughes had trouble getting around, lived in a converted semitrailer truck, which nurses climbed into by ladder to attend his final illness...
...Right Flank. Nonetheless, the heaviest fighting in Algeria since De Gaulle's return to power (45 rebels killed, 64 captured) made it plain that the Algerian revolt was by no means ended. And on De Gaulle's other flank-the right one-the balcony generals of the French army were applying unrelenting pressure. Without bothering to consult De Gaulle, military authorities in France last week seized issues of two of the Parisian papers most frequently suppressed under the Fourth Republic-France-Observateur and L'Express...
Gold-mining shares were eagerly bought on the world's stock exchanges last week. In London, trading was the heaviest in 3½ years, and prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...