Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settles invisibly over the earth after test explosions? Reactions range from unconcern to the near side of panic. Alarmed by recent announcements of sizable fail-out increases over North America since the U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests in October, a subcommittee of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held hearings last week, listened to scientists' reports addressed to two pivotal questions: How much of fission's byproducts -notably strontium 90, which enters the body in food, accumulates in the bones and may cause leukemia and bone cancer -can the human body safely tolerate? How much has been...
Gallused, collarless and tieless, his straw boater firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
...week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom if they renounced their faith, chose to be killed instead. In one district, not a single Christian was spared. Says Drummond: "More than 13% of all Japanese Christians lost their lives for the sake...
...afford to lose gold without feeling it. By law the Treasury must have gold reserves equal to 25% of the Federal Reserve's notes and deposits, or about $12 billion. It also must be able to redeem some $16.6 billion in foreign time deposits in U.S. banks, foreign-held U.S. Government securities and similar claims. In the unlikely event all foreign claimants demanded to be paid off in gold at once, the gold backing for U.S. currency would drop to $3.7 billion, a third of the legal minimum...
When a privately held company with only a small issue of stocks offers its shares to the public for the first time, it usually has to split to sell in a popular price range. The stock of Upjohn Co., valued at $1,125 a share, was split 25 for i before public sale so that the price to the public was $45 a share. Similarly, when the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. wanted to sell a large block this spring, it first split the old shares, selling at around $500, so that the price to the public...