Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think a mean trick has been played on you," cried West Germany's largest newspaper, Bild-Zeitung, greeting Erhard's return. Influential Hamburg Publisher Dr. Gerd Bucerius, a Bundestag Deputy, had urged a vote of no confidence in Adenauer after taking a poll among 6,000 Famburgers and finding 92½% opposed to Adenauer's decision...
...gassed and whipped 800 high school students protesting a trolley-fare hike. The brutality brought out the university students next day. Alarmed, the government canceled the fare hike, but 1,000 students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...National Geographic Society, which finances scientific discovery, prints maps, and publishes the National Geographic Magazine, is the least exclusive, farthest flung and most improbable nonprofit publishing corporation in the world. Last year it sponsored an expedition to South America in search of the world's largest ant (longer than 1 in.), underwrote a dozen other scientific projects around the globe, printed 17.5 million maps, and gained 125,000 members, to bring total circulation to 2,440,000. The Magazine (a word customarily capitalized by the society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken...
Though shareholders of both banks (and regulatory agencies) must still approve. the merger is expected to go through in about five weeks. In pulling it off Helm will make the combined Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. (deposits of $3.8 billion) the third largest bank in New York, the fourth in the nation (after the Bank of America, $9.5 billion; New York's First National City. $6.8 billion; and Chase Manhattan. $6.4 billion...
...study of the immediate plans of the Class of '59 the following break-down is reported: 15 per cent plan to get a job, 7 percent plan to travel or study, 21 per cent intend to fulfill military obligations, and 2 per cent are indefinite. By far the largest number, 55 per cent, plan to enter graduate school immediately. In addition, many of those listed in other categories, especially those in the military, will go to graduate school. Of the 55 per cent of the Class planning immediate graduate study, 33 per cent intend to enter GSAS, 30 per cent...