Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young, dynamic land was increasingly able to stand on its own feet. Canada did not tumble into the V-shaped chasm that threatened briefly to trap the U.S. economy. If anything, Canada's recession was milder than the slump in the U.S. Except in the winter months, unemployment hit a smaller part of the working force in Canada. Industrial production sagged less sharply, recovered earlier. At year's end Canadians added up a new $32 billion record for Gross National Product...
...both settlers and scientists knew that something very strange lived in the Serra dos Dourados. In 1955 an unusual frost hit northern Parana, destroying jungle fruit and game. Starving Indians crept out of the jungle to pillage the vegetable garden of the Fazenda Santa Rosa, a backwoods farmhouse. The frightened manager sent for help from the Indian Protection Service...
Once the Colts got the ball in overtime, Unitas put the game away. He waited until the last second in the face of Giant tackling, hit his receivers with bullet passes, sent Fullback Alan Ameche the final yard for a hair-raising 23-17 victory and the Colts' first N.F.L. title...
...place Camel slipped .9% to 63.5 billion cigarettes in the domestic market and American Tobacco's second-place Pall Mall gained 6.4% to 58 billion, American was hurt by a 9.2% dip in sales of its third-place Lucky Strike, to 47.2 billion. Furthermore, neither of its filters-Hit Parade or Tareyton-broke into the top 15 brands. Meantime, Reynolds sped ahead on the sales of its Winston, up 5.5% to 42.3 billion, ranking it as the top-selling filter and No. 4 among all brands. Reynolds' filtered Salem also took over first place in the burgeoning mentholated...
...union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will hit 50% by 1968. In all U.S. manufacturing, it has climbed from 16% to 25% within the past decade...