Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each spring when the Chancellor of the Exchequer presents his budget to Parliament, the imposts and expenditures which he proposes are expected to hold good for the entire year. Once in a while, he may be forced to submit an "autumn budget," a phrase which in Britain has become virtually synonymous with economic trouble. When Parliament reconvenes this week, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler will submit an autumn budget. It will be Britain's first in eight years...
...harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled, piled their wheat in amber hillocks on the ground. When the harvest was in, Canada's supply of wheat on hand stood at 992 million bushels...
...Tourneau, Inc. maintains full-time chaplains at both its Vicksburg, Miss, and Longview, Tex. plants for on-the-job spiritual guidance; the chaplains also hold weekly services which 85% of the workers attend. Tulsa's Sunray-Mid Continent Oil Co. has employed a chaplain since 1947, and his advice is so heavily in demand that he will soon get a second assistant. The story is the same at San Diego's Solar Aircraft, Dallas' John E. Mitchell Co., Dearborn Stove Co., Ohio's Pioneer Rubber Co. At Solar Aircraft, the program was so well liked that...
Unrehearsed. In San Francisco, police arrested Carley Neef, 36, after she approached a teller in the Bank of America's downtown branch, demanded he hand over the money, then burst into tears, cried: "Call a guard, please, I'm trying to hold up the bank...
...varsity been able to hold onto the ball in the second half, they might have scored just as easily. But in the third period, a fumble and a pass interception twice cost the Crimson the ball in their own territory--once on the 23, once on the 32--and both times, Bucknell scored...