Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard, jogs around a small course that he has laid out from fig to apricot to pear-tree stump (about 100 yards at a time). He cuts his lawn with a hand mower, rakes his own leaves. His blood pressure is 135 over 90. The systolic reading is low for any man over 65; the diastolic is near the upper limit of normal-except that there are so few records of men in their 90's that normal is ill-defined. His pulse is a low 64, as it has been for years. (In highly trained athletes it tends...
...like mushrooms all over the surface of the globe. Essence of the geodesic dome is to frame a sphere (the greatest possible space with the least possible surface) with combinations of tetrahedrons ("the simplest finite system you can have"), making a lightweight, easily assembled structure of wide span and low cost...
...Last.week the American Iron and Steel Institute reported that production in September reached 65.8% of capacity, the highest of any month this year. By week's end. producers were running closer to 71%. The reason for the steel upsurge was simply that many firms had cut inventories so low that they were hustling to order before a shortage set in. Jones & Laughlin, fourth largest producer, upped its output to 82% as a result of "a sharp increase in orders.'' As operations in the Youngstown, Ohio district rose to 64% of capacity v. 56% the week before, hundreds...
...Though rich in scenery and resources, North Carolina is basically a maze of stamp-sized, undermechanized, undercapitalized farms. Its top crop is tobacco (more than half the U.S. output), which exhausts the soil, brings small profits to the farmer. North Carolina's manufacturing is largely in textiles, a low-wage, boom-or-bust industry. Among the states, North Carolina stood No. i in the number of farm residents (1.4 million), No. 48 in the average weekly earnings of manufacturing workers ($47.88). It was clear to Hodges what North Carolina needed. "We had to get our farmers to diversify...
...highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times's index stood at 205.4, only 7.9 points below the alltime high of July 1955. Transactions in a single day totaled 16,599,000 shares, highest in 17 months...