Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very fine wrap-up of the Andrea Doria-Stockholm disaster, but would like to point out that the point where the liner was hit was not the starboard "quarter" but the waist. The quarter is the stern section of a ship...
...turning point came in 1932, when Standard Oil of California hit oil on Bahrein. Belgrave persuaded the Sheik to take a step unprecedented for an Arab ruler: to split Bahrein's oil income ($8,500,000 in 1955) three ways−one-third to the Sheik, one-third to "the people" and one-third to a national reserve fund. The consequence is that while the oil wealth of neighboring Arab countries has often been squandered on Cadillacs, harems and princely pub-crawls, Bahrein's oil has helped to propel a whole people into the 20th century...
...King and I. A lavish musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...
There are some firm records to help separate fact from fancy. If the Administration has aimed at "economic slack," its failure has been colossal. In July, the Commerce and Labor departments announced last week, employment hit an all-time record for the second straight month. The number of U.S. workers on the job reached 66.7 million, a far cry from the 60 million jobs predicted hopefully by Henry Wallace in 1945 and exactly 7% more than the employment level of July, 1952 under the economic stimulus of the Korean...
...airline lobbyists who have been putting tremendous heat on CAB. Suddenly, Northeast's ordinarily sluggish shares (only 249,600 traded in all of 1955) zoomed; in just one day 24,000 were traded, with the stock jumping from 9½ to 12½. Finally, as the rumor hit front pages and the lobbyists turned their strongest pressure on CAB to change its mind, the agency quickly convened, in a four-hour meeting clinched the matter by taking the unprecedented step of announcing its decision before issuing a formal order...