Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange indeed were Togliatti's answers to nine questions conveniently framed by Rome's highbrow Nuovi Argomenti. According to Togliatti, Khrushchev went too far: "Criticisms of Stalin at the 20th Congress, which were largely unexpected, hit hard at the cadres of the international movement; there was not only surprise, there was also sorrow and bewilderment; there were doubts about the past." He explained that the criticism was needed because "leading cadres of the Soviet society had become insensitive and had lost personal capacity owing to the Stalin cult...
...London, Conn, to defeat ancient rival Harvard for the 54th time in 104 meetings. ¶In the season's biggest trade, the seventh-place New York Giants swapped four players even with the St. Louis Cardinals, got a lift when Red Schoendienst, their new second baseman, hit a homer while Shortstop Al Dark and First Baseman Whitey Lockman were spoiling their debuts as Cards by making three errors...
Just as on Broadway, My Fair Lady is a smash hit of the record industry. On the market for nine weeks, Columbia Records had shipped some 200,000 LP recordings of the show (list price: $4.98) by the end of last week, and orders were coming in at a joyous rate of some 10,000 a day-or at about the clip of a good-selling pop single. Equally gratifying to showfolk was the advance order for two versions, single LP and big (3 LP) album, of Broadway's latest hit musical. The Most Happy Fella, which, at more...
...news of President Eisenhower's illness (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) hit Wall Street barely an hour before the opening trading gong. At the first sketchy reports, there was a burst of selling while traders waited anxiously for more complete word on the President's condition. As it came, the market hung on the doctor's bulletins. When news reached Wall Street at midday that Ike was headed for the hospital in an ambulance, there was a rush to sell. The ticker ran five minutes late, and the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 15 points. But later, when...
...investment in plant and equipment was still clipping along at a record rate of $34.8 billion in 1956's second quarter and would reach a rate of $36.7 billion in the third quarter, both far above the first-quarter rate of $32.8 billion annually. Employment was still rising, hit a seasonal record of 65 million in May, while personal income soared to a peak of $317 billion, up $2 billion from March. Unemployment was steady at 2.6 million, unchanged from April. Department-store sales for May were 6% higher than last year, while overall sales for 1956 to date...