Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manila will get a red hat as the largest diocese in the Far East (1,967,791 Catholics). The only reason Archbishop Rufino Santos was not made cardinal in 1953 was his youth...
...wife, Maria Bockenolle, of Norwich, England, painted in 1634 during Rembrandt's early years as a successful portrait painter in Amsterdam. Boston Museum trustees used up the whole of their five-year-old William K. Richardson fund to pay for the pair of life-sized portraits, largest single purchase in the museum's 80-year-old history. The price: just under...
...Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in the largest producing state, has refused thus far to make major increases in the allowable production. This has been cited by government officials as one reason for the lagging of the emergency oil program for Europe...
...strange army of men dangling on ropes from hovering helicopters. Touching down in the region of Mount Troodos, the parachuters cordoned off a circular area while 2,000 British soldiers and Cyprus police moved into the villages. Operation "Black Mac," concluded last week, was rated by the British the largest and most successful campaign yet against EOKA, the Union-with-Greece underground that in the last 22 months has assassinated 98 British and 140 Cypriots on Britain's island base in the Mediterranean...
...more than two years Wall Street's bond market has been sagging like a sick puppy. But last week U.S. Government bonds snapped back for the most hopeful sign of recovery in bond prices since late 1954. Long-term Government bonds scored the largest single day's advance since June 1953, shot up as much as if points during the week, a healthy gain for gilt-edge securities. Encouraged by that sharp rise, trading picked up swiftly in both corporate and municipal bonds. New issues moved quickly into investment portfolios, and many municipal bonds sold out completely...