Word: midmonth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexhaustible engine, the U.S. economy, last week ticked off yet another record. It completed 80 consecutive months of expansion, equaling the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945, and showed no signs of pausing. Later this month, the nation will pass two other important statistical bench marks. At midmonth, the gross national product will top the $800 billion level; the $1 trillion mark is certain to be reached in the early 1970s. And on Nov. 20, at precisely 11 a.m., the Census Bureau's population clock, which records an additional American every 141 seconds, will register 200 million...
...Arlington, Va., with his wife Anna and their children - John, 15, and Caroline, 13 - Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, returned to the powder-blue crew quarters of Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn: "We've had a wonderful Christmas - our very...
American Motors' scheme to reward its customers when sales are good seemed to be paying off last week. During the first part of December, in a slipping auto market, sales were only 1.7% above the 1959 rate. After President George Romney announced at midmonth that a $25 U.S. Savings Bond would go to car buyers during a four-month period for every 10% increase in sales over the preceding year, sales shot up, finished 15.9% over December 1959. Last week American Motors began sending out $25 bonds to 34,971 car buyers. Among the recipients: General Motors Corp., which...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's retreat, by taking him out of stage center, left him less vulnerable to the growing pressures against him. They are: certain censure at the midmonth meeting of the Organization of American States for his attempted assassination of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Washington's feeling that he is an embarrassing anachronism, disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church and opposition from the formerly tame middle and upper classes. If necessary, he can retreat further to the safety of the U.N. corridors in Manhattan. If at that point prudence indicates that the chief...