Word: junes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last June, the truncheons of 500 South African police beat down a native riot in Cato Manor, Durban's tin-roofed apartheid shantytown (four dead, 24 injured), and produced the kind of international story that the xenophobic South African government hates most to see in foreign print. Reading exported accounts of the riot, External Affairs Minister Eric Louw issued a threat of reprisal against "offending foreign newspaper correspondents who are not Union nationals." Last week. Louw's truncheon fell on a victim not only obscure but innocent. Peremptorily ousted from the Union of South Africa after eleven years...
...week-old steel strike began to cramp the nation's economy. The Federal Reserve Board reported that during August alone, industrial production declined on the basis of the 1947-49 average from the June alltime record...
...July level of the nation's wage and salary payments. In five manufacturing industries closely allied to steel-primary metals, mining, transportation, fabricated metals and machinery-the August annual rate of personal income was down $3 billion from the July annual rate and $4.5 billion below the June rate. Since the steel strike started last July 15, an estimated 500,000 steelworkers and 155,000 workers laid off in allied industries have lost something like $700 million in wages...
United expects to have 16 DC-8s in service by the year's end, 40 by June 1961, plus 18 medium-haul Boeing 720s. By next June "Pat" Patterson is confident that United's jet service will catch up to the competition...
Wolfe landed down the St. Lawrence River from Quebec on June 27, 1759, aquiver with dreams of glory. But for most of the summer, he fretfully wavered between various battle plans while his army was cut almost in half by dysentery, scurvy and Indian raids. Finally, in desperation, Wolfe decided to strike. and at the last minute (possibly on the advice of spies) chose a spot that proved to be one of the weakest links in the French defenses...