Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hook's was decidedly the stronger win. He scored two on the takedown, then chose the defensive position where his superior height aided a quick reverse. His strength did not fade...
Three days later, the Soviet foreign ministry confirmed the AEC announcement and revealed a little more. The bomb, said the foreign ministry, was exploded at great height to minimize the radioactive fallout (radioactive rain fell on Japan last week), and was the occasion for research in civil defense as well as in the development of atomic energy...
...Akron, 2,000 trade unionists helped raise $2,387,243, in the biggest United Fund campaign in local history. In Detroit's Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, at the height of the 1955 Torch Drive, four girls, escorted by armed Brinks' guards, dumped $1,471,319 on the speakers' table at a fund-raisers' luncheon. The money was the joint contribution of 66,647 General Motors employees ($1,096,319) and the company itself...
...height of the Salk crisis last June, Detroit's Parke, Davis...
...television stations in small cities, Thompson Products' Dage Television Division has announced a complete low-power station costing only $50.000, v. $250,000 and up for standard installations. Dage's station was made possible by the Federal Communications Commission's lowering of power and antenna-height requirements in August. The market looks big: FCC has assigned TV channels to 900 communities of less than 50,000 population, but because of high costs, all are still without stations...