Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, for anybody who has indulged in Nevada's favorite public pastime, was familiar. The room was quiet except for the snap of cards, the clack of poker chips and murmuring of the players. At nine tables, the gamblers played stud, low ball, twenty-one or panguingui. The cards were dealt, the winners raked in the pots. Then, at 3:20 p.m., a bugle blew, and all the players got up and went back to their cells. Gambling at Nevada's State Prison in Carson City was closed...
...added something entirely new to his already colorful manual on how to succeed in African politics. As United Party leaders got set for the election by taking the precaution of recruiting some young goons of their own, Nkrumah sent out secret orders for the Builders' Brigade to lie low. The result was a moral disaster for the U.P.: by the time election day came round last week, Ghana's uncorrupted, British-trained police had been forced to arrest 82 United Party toughs, while only seven of the C.P.P.'s boys got into trouble. And two C.P.P...
...LOW HOG PRICES will cut retail pork prices for the rest...
...booths, hunting and fishing license departments, gourmet and shoe-repair shops. By the end of 1958, Barr had reduced Ward's cash hoard from $327 million to $94.7 million. Says he: "By the end of 1959, we will have put all of our excess cash, previously invested in low-earning securities, to work in higher-earning merchandising assets...
First pressings show the grapes to have a potential 14% alcohol content (1% to 2½% higher than normal) and low acidity. At the same time, the full ripening of the skins guarantees enough tannin to give the wine full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes...