Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge population board in Washington's Department of Commerce lobby clicked away in its steady, scientifically programed pace, last week hit a U.S. population milestone: 175 million. Next outstanding marker: 200 million...
...Republicans have dropped the Tammany issue, for they probably discovered that the ogre of Tammany Hall was a real menace only to convinced Republicans and that harping on the issue would just alienate independent voters. At the same time, they have failed to hit hard at Hogan's chief weakness as a Senatorial candidate--his inexperience in national affairs...
...Tokyo exchange set two records in a week. The number of shares changing hands rose by 30% during the week and the closing average price of 225 stocks hit $1.71, highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times...
...West Germany's eight independent stock exchanges, led by Düsseldorf, the bullishness neared 1955 levels. A year ago the index of share prices on the exchanges was 192. It hit 227 in June, has since soared to 277, rose five points in the first week of October. Chief reason: a shortage of stock because many companies have been using profits to expand rather than raise capital by new stock issues. The rise has brought in more foreign buyers, stirred Germany's first crop of small investors through new mutual funds whose business is booming...
When The Long Night begins for Steely, his father has walked out on his family. But on this day, Mamma has hit it lucky playing the numbers game. When she sends Steely to collect her $27, she warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy...