Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm tides. A hurricane has several devices for raising the water level. In the "eye of the storm," the center of the spinning doughnut, barometric pressure is abnormally low. So the sea is sucked upward, sometimes as much as four feet. In Carol's case this effect was minor. The pressure in her center probably did not fall below 28.4 inches (of mercury) and so could not have lifted the sea level much more than two feet...
...Brazil's second biggest producing area in Parana, damaging nearly 250 million trees. With forecasts of a meager 13 million-bag crop, some 4,000,000 bags less than expected, a wild price spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels. But instead of a 15% or 20% price rise as might be expected in the wake of an 8% crop loss, Brazilian coffee futures climbed...
...Fifth Symphony (in a ragged performance by the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli) runs a mere three minutes-minus the development section, where, in effect, the composer explains what his music is about. Overall cut: from 32 minutes to 14. Other emasculated masterpieces: Franck's D Minor Symphony (38 to 14), Brahms's First Symphony (38 to 15), Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto...
BASEBALL MANUFACTURING is in a serious slump, brought on by a 40% drop in the number of minor leagues since 1949 (present total: 33). Sales of baseballs are so low that Wilson & Co. closed its 50-man Schenectady plant, will meet the demand from its Tullahoma, Tenn. plant...
...restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often held a monocle rather than a mirror up to nature. But caught in its faintly supercilious eye is a fair share of minor modern masterpieces...