Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time $6 billion in foreign aid has been pledged to its member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About two-thirds of all the aid has gone to India. The original overall goals (17% more irrigated land, 10% more food produced, 67% more electricity generated have long since been attained, yet so vast is the area's increase in population (10 million annually) that living standards have risen only slightly...
When police found William Flanagan in a Philadelphia gutter, he was barely conscious and obviously suffering from long exposure to the frosty night air. At Hahnemann Hospital, Intern Edward Brunner was still examining Flanagan, 43, a 6-ft.-3-in. laborer, when the patient's heart stopped. Dr. Brunner slit open Flanagan's chest, and began massaging his heart. (It was the first time that Dr. Brunner. 30, had had to open a chest.) Surgeon Frank Sterba put a tube down the patient's windpipe, hooked it to a mechanical ventilator to take care of his breathing...
...copy edition, production had moved up by week's end to a Sunday edition of 48 pages, with a press run of 520,000 copies. At that rate it appeared that the Journal and the Oregonian may have turned their composing-room comedy of errors into a long-run test of strength...
...York Times before he unburdened himself of a book. Otto Preminger is a bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury's Advise and Consent, which has led the bestseller list for nine weeks...
Reporter Drury could afford to play coy with the Times. His first novel, a long (616 pages) and intimate look at the life of Senators and Presidents, is in its eighth printing. So far it has sold 285,000 hardback copies ($5.75 each), plus 2,800,000 in a Reader's Digest condensation. On Broadway, Producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr plan to stage Advise and Consent next autumn. Counting the Preminger deal, Drury could gross more than $500,000 from his book. At week's end New Novelist Drury announced he would resign from the Times...