Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DESPITE currency and other restrictions, private U.S. investors have sunk $3.2 billion into American-controlled foreign enterprises in the last three years, half of it in Canada. Total such stakes abroad, as of midyear: $15 billion...
...business itself, it was not only booming, but promised to stay that way. Many a prophet who had predicted that business would slip after midyear changed his mind, now saw a good second half. A touch of spring in the air gave retail sales a push to an estimated 3% to 7% higher than a year ago. The SEC estimated that, on the basis of a new survey, business expansion in 1953 would exceed the record $26.5 billion spent last year. And the Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumers' spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this...
...Hygiene Department will no longer issue excuses for one-day absences for illness unless students miss an hour, midyear, or final examination. Students must tell the Hygiene Department they have these examinations if they expect an excuse to be issued for them...
After an exciting midyear during which the sun was eclipsed on January 24 and, according to predictions by the Seventh Day Adventists, the world was to end in February 6, life in Cambridge went "back to normalcy...
...Desperate cramming and questioning of roommates were to no avail as the whetted intellectual hatchet chopped inexorably into the egos of this year's yearlings. When the smoke...had cleared, when the mental debris had been removed, frosh found themselves baptized by fire and ready to take on midyear exams...