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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was little definite speculation last night as to what the arrests would mean. Conceivably, the offending bars could lose their liquor licenses, or be fined, or both...
...Atomic Energy Commission gave the seismologists no help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
...same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will be necessary to call forth a high wave of new production...
...continent, feeling the wind of Wyoming nights and the heat of Texas days, looking for Moriarty's never-to-be-found father or anyone's sister, always expecting the ultimate in music or love or understanding around the next bend in the road. Excitement and movement mean everything. Steady jobs and homes in the suburbs are for the "squares...
...want to know how many people in the family, how many children, their ages and sexes, whether it's a one-story or a two-story home, what their religious preference is. How much laundry do they send out? Do they have pets? What does the employer mean by a day off? What type of cooking do they expect? How often do they entertain? When do they serve dinner?" If the client boggles, says Mrs. Heinke, "I simply tell her, 'If I don't ask you, the employee will...