Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...betting was that nothing would really be agreed upon at Geneva, except the necessity to take differences to a higher level...
...total fission yield of more than 91,000 kilotons. The U.S. and Britain have been responsible for more than two-thirds of it. But the Russians contributed 21,000 of their 25,560-kiloton total in 1957-58 alone, raising the debris in the stratosphere to a record level...
...Steelmakers poured at double last year's rate, were producing at 94% capacity. Oil production bubbled 14% above the spring 1958 level, and even Old King Coal staged a comeback. Soft coal output was up 29% at 8,300,000 tons for the week...
There was one index on the downgrade. Happily, it was for consumer food prices. Dun & Bradstreet's shopping basket of 31 basic foods (one pound of each) dropped to $6.13 wholesale, off 2? for the week and 44? below last year's recession level...
...million, a greater gold outgo than occurred in the entire first quarter. Coming after a drop of $2.3 billion in 1958-the sharpest one-year decline in history-the renewed flow of U.S. gold to foreign nations brought Treasury gold holdings to $20,255,000,000, the lowest level in 13 years...