Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, Gaullists, Communists and some nearsighted or timid middle-of-the-roaders are sure to fight the plan's ratification tooth & nail. The British, at best, are lukewarm. But, as a disgusted German delegate said to a French colleague at the height of the haggling in Paris: "If we go on like this,-we'll be arguing about German rearmament in Siberia...
Search for Oil. At the height of its expansion, Matador owned or leased feeding ranges which included large tracts in Saskatchewan and hundreds of thousands of acres of reservation land leased from the Indians in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Now, apart from the main 400,000-acre Matador ranch, the holdings consist of another 394,000-acre ranch (the Alamositas, or Little Cottonwoods) 140 miles to the northwest, and a small 4,000acre feeding strip near Malta, Mont. The lure to the buyers of Matador is not only cattle; it is also oil and gas. Although Humble Oil & Refining...
...biggest dam anywhere. Viewed from the gorge below, it looks like the biggest thing on earth. Over its spillway, 1,650 feet wide, the great Columbia River sweeps majestically, a curve of green water up to 17 feet thick. It falls so far (320 feet, twice the height of Niagara) that it seems to fall slowly. The roar of the falling water, though loud, is as smooth as the sound of surf on a distant beach...
Radio stock went soaring from $2.50 to $549 a share, was split and resplit. Insiders made killings in radio pools, but Sarnoff had a reputation for keeping aloof from such shenanigans. At their height, he sailed to Europe to help Owen Young set up the Young Plan for German reparations...
Though she has an appreciative eye for figures when it comes to salary, in other connections Dagmar is mathematically blind. Her height, 5 ft. 8½ in., was recently made official by a doctor, but her age ("Put down 22 or 24 or whatever you think is charming") and her weight ("That's one thing I wouldn't care to know") are more elusive. Some statistics, however, she does remember. "My bust is 40 inches," she says, breathing deeply...