Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising prices pressed against its pocketbook. Officially, the news was told in plain statistics: the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index had risen an average .4% between the end of May and the end of June, bringing the index factor to an all-time high of 124.5 (1947-49 average...
...strengths of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that a government-appointed commission can frequently put the government itself in the dock and block its course. Last week a four-man British commission, headed by respected High Court Justice Sir Patrick Devlin, brought in a report on its six-week investigation of the nationalist uprisings last March in Nyasaland, the African territory run by London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self...
...with seven companions (including a veterinary surgeon) and a 5,700-lb. female elephant named Jumbo, borrowed from the Turin zoo. In preparation for the trip, Jumbo was taken on long daily walks in hope that roadwork would condition her for the climb. Special leather-soled boots 30 in. high and weighing nearly 30 lbs. apiece were built to protect her feet. To guard against the cold and against bumps and scrapes in narrow passages, she was fitted with knee pads and a padded canvas overcoat. A three-ton food supply was rounded...
...inner compound, surrounded by 6-ft.-high concrete walls, will have 20 twelve-room fieldstone villas, a state-run shopping center, power plant, and a house of culture that features guest rooms, a theater and a ballroom, reported West Berlin's B.Z. last week. The shopping center is being stocked with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East...
...Strike Three!" The Castro adulation grew. Appearing one night to accept a gift machete and to toss an inning of exhibition baseball for an army team, Castro marched to the mound in high spirits. A onetime sub at the University of Havana, he unleashed a wild fast ball, got a friendly reading from the umpire. With the count at 3 and 2, Fidel whipped a high, hard one over the batter's head. "Strike three!" the umpire said...