Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara, 72, Archbishop of Lima, Roman Catholic Primate of Peru and the sixth member of the Sacred College of Cardinals to die this year (leaving it six short of its plenum of 70); of a heart attack after long illness with cancer; in Lima...
...girl look, confides that she almost went to college and majored in music - "I was a drum majorette." Meanwhile, Judy has an experience with a charm boy (Donald Curtis) who asks her up to his "an teem" apartment. Jack enters a painting class, sprouts a moustache and buys a lima bean-shaped sports-car. So it goes, and very merrily indeed, until separate existence is just too much to wrestle with, and Judy and Jack get a firm new wedlock on each other...
Pickup. A lawnmower-like magnetic "sweeper" to pick up metal scraps from factory floors has been developed by Homer Mfg. Co. of Lima, Ohio. Prices: from $124 to $856, depending on width and intensity of magnets...
Partridge was sent to the State Hospital for the Insane at Lima. Doctors there released him, finding him sane, although possessed of "some unusual and strong ideas." He returned to Hillsboro to resume his duties as county engineer. The county commissioners tried to fire him, but strong-minded Partridge contended that he had job tenure, that his setting fire to the school was an after-hours act performed as a private person and did not affect his professional competence as a county engineer...
Recently the Foreign Operations Administration granted $20 million to India to buy 100 steam locomotives and 5,000 freight cars. India insisted that the U.S. do the purchasing. To get the best deal, the Government asked for competitive bids. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, the only U.S. firm that still makes steam locomotives, bid $178,200 per locomotive, v. the low bid of $81,470 from Japan. The low U.S. bid for freight cars was $2,912 per car, while other bids ranged from a German company's $1,006 to a Japanese firm's $1,860. Though...