Word: hr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that a reporter aboard wrote, "It looked like the dipping wing tank was going to hit the wave crests...
...Rolls a role), shot a scene or two with each, and spliced the scenes into the picture whenever it started to get dull. For the first two hours the technique works almost as well as it did in ATW180D, but Pepe goes on and on and on (for 3 hr. 15 min.) until even the hardiest celebrity chaser may get tired of the face-dropping. Just screening the titles takes so long that many a viewer will have finished his first box of popcorn before the action starts...
Living costs were still on the rise, bringing an automatic 2?-per-hr. cost-of-living wage increase for some 225,000 U.S. workers, chiefly in the meat-packing and aircraft-missile industries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that a jump in food prices pushed the cost of living to a new peak in November of 127.4 (1947-49 = 100), up from 127.3. It was the first food price increase in November since...
...Canada, to find work. Two years ago, the government put together an appealing package. To the foreign industrialist, it grants a ten-year tax exemption on export profits and offers to pay the full cost of training the workers (average wage: $29 for a 44-hr, week), plus 50% of the cost of the machinery and up to one-half of the cost of building a plant. In addition, it will pay the full cost of building plants in the underdeveloped western counties. To companies locating plants in the customs-free port in Shannon, it gives a tax holiday...
...rolling 120 acres outside Buffalo last week, engineers started planning the construction of a $12.5 million apartment hotel and a cluster of small cottages, to be called Rockledge. It will have a pitch-and-putt golf course, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, roof garden, sun deck and an infirmary offering 24-hr, medical service. What sets Rockledge apart from other hotel projects is that it is designed to house only retired people-at a profit. Prices will start at $8,000 to buy a living room-bedroom apartment, plus a $112.50-per-person monthly charge for meals and maintenance. The builders...